Abstract
- Surveys have identified a diversity of species or species groups on the California OCS
- Nearshore and shoreline species
- Sea ducks, loons, grebes, shorebirds, gulls, terns
- Western Snowy Plover, California Least Tern and Marbled Murrelet – ESA listed
- Pelagic species primarily in deep offshore waters
- 50+ species including tubenoses, skuas, alcids
- Pelagic shorebirds, terns, gulls
- Changing status
- Short-tailed Albatross and Hawaiian Petrel – ESA listed
- Rare but increasing
- Knowledge of distribution changing… regularly occurring off California