Yaquina Head Lighthouse Oregon

Lighthouse at Yaquina Head Outstanding Natural Area, NPS, Newport, Oregon. Oregon Coastline 2013: Oregon Coast, Oregon, USA. Friday, August 3, 2013. (c) 2013: Photo by Thomas Baurley, Leaf McGowan: Techno Tink Media (www.technotink.net/photography/).
Lighthouse at Yaquina Head Outstanding Natural Area, NPS, Newport, Oregon. Oregon Coastline 2013: Oregon Coast, Oregon, USA. Friday, August 3, 2013. (c) 2013: Photo by Thomas Baurley, Leaf McGowan: Techno Tink Media (www.technotink.net/photography/).
"Bird sounds at sea - While seabirds lack the beautiful songs of the thrushes and wrens, all can vocalize - sometimes loudly and at great length! Birds use their oices to attract mates, to establish territory, and to indentify their offspring, as well as to register alarm, contentment and the location of food sources. Listen to the sounds these birds make. The surf scoter is a duck: the others are seabirds". "Protecting Seabirds - to encourage nesting sites, BLM and US Fish and Wildlife Service biologists want to keep this area natural. Your role? just stay behind the fences and enjoy watching the birds. " "Seabirds are here year round - seven species of seabirds nest here on the cliffs or rocky offshore islets. Many more seabirds feed and rest here during their migrations to and from their northern breeding sites." "Common mures - are the most abundant nesting seabird at Yaquina Head. Over 25,000 common murres breed on Colony Rock. Each pair of murres lays a single, pear-shaped egg on this rocky island." "Tuffed puffins - arrive in April and nest in burrows (up to 5 feet deep) or in crevics in May. Because there is so little soil on the cliffs at Yaquina Head, only a few pairs have found nest crevices - mostly on the ocean side of Colony Rock, in front of this deck." "Pigeon guillemots - return to mid to late March and build their nests 10-40 feet above the water. Pairs normally use the same nesting site from year to year." "Pelagic cormorants - cement their nests of seaweed and grass to the cliffsides with excrement. Compared to many other breeding seabirds, their nests are spaced widely apart." "Brandt's cormorants - are highly sociable and breed in large colonies. Their nests are close together - usually only pecking distance apart." "Glaucous winged gulls and western gulls - both build bowl-shaped nests lined with local vegetation. At Yaquina Head their eggs begin hatching in June". Yaquina Head Outstanding Natural Area, NPS, Newport, Oregon. Oregon Coastline 2013: Oregon Coast, Oregon, USA. Friday, August 3, 2013. (c) 2013: Photo by Leaf McGowan: Techno Tink Media (www.technotink.net/photography/).
Yaquina Head Outstanding Natural Area, NPS, Newport, Oregon. Oregon Coastline 2013: Oregon Coast, Oregon, USA. Friday, August 3, 2013. (c) 2013: Photo by Leaf McGowan, Thomas Baurley, Leaf McGowan: Techno Tink Media (www.technotink.net/photography/).
Yaquina Head Outstanding Natural Area, NPS, Newport, Oregon. Oregon Coastline 2013: Oregon Coast, Oregon, USA. Friday, August 3, 2013. (c) 2013: Photo by Leaf McGowan, Thomas Baurley, Leaf McGowan: Techno Tink Media (www.technotink.net/photography/).

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