Elephant Seal Monitoring at Point Reyes National Seashore (U.S. National Park Service)

Elephant Seal Monitoring at Point Reyes National Seashore (U.S. National Park Service).

Elephant seals can be readily counted when they come ashore each year to give birth, breed, and molt. Point Reyes National Seashore is one of only about a dozen sites where northern elephant seals breed worldwide.

Type
Web Site
Date of Issue
2026-09-30
Units
SFAN
Keywords
California, Elephant Seals, mammals, marine mammals, monitoring, pinnipeds, Resource Brief, San Francisco Bay Area, seals, SFAN, vital sign, west coast
License
Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal

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