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It’s shark season at the Farallon Islands!

Every fall, the white sharks return to the Farallon Islands from their annual migration to the middle of the Pacific Ocean. We typically see the first shark predation event during late August, and then the number of predations increase through September to when they peak in October.

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The Ghost Murre

The Farallon Islands are home to one of the largest aggregations of breeding seabirds in North America south of Alaska, with the Common Murre (Uria aalge) being the most abundant, reaching numbers upwards of 300,000 individuals during the peak breeding season. To the unfamiliar eye, one might look at a murre and mistake it for

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Fantastic Find on the Farallones

The crews on the Southeast Farallon Island are used to finding random objects throughout the island since gulls bring many back from the coast, but they weren’t prepared for what they found on February 6th.

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Spring Tides Reveal Intertidal Treasures

We’re not referring to the season spring, but a ‘spring tide.’ This is a term referring to the periods of higher high and lower low tides during new and full moon. There is some really cool stuff in our intertidal!

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Cricket Time!

What lurks in the the caves on the Farallones? We survey them to find out! It’s time once again for our quarterly cricket surveys!

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Glowing Sea Gherkins!

On the morning of January 7th, the field team stumbled across a curious sight to behold… thousands of tubular gelatinous creatures!

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