27px, we want 27. Please register or login . But these precious chunks of land provide nesting habitat for an estimated 1.1 million seabirds, more than nest along the combined coastlines of California and Washington.
Summer brings tufted puffins, auklets and murrelets.
Loons, scoters and grebes arrive for winter. Five species of gulls and two of cormorants make their homes here year-round. More than bird habitat, these rocky islands are haul-outs for seals and sea lions who give birth to pups, rest and molt here. You'll see few plants other than sea palms and the bobbing bulbous heads of kelp. Some of the islands support meager growths of twinberry, salal and stunted spruce.