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Oregon Coast Birding - Nesting Seabirds
Brandt’s cormorants are fascinating birds to study during their annual visit to the Oregon Coast. These cormorants coexist comfortably within large groups of common murres nesting on offshore rocks offering them protection against such predators as gulls, or they can be found setting up their own nesting areas. Brandt’s cormorants build a nest out of dry matter including grasses, weeds, sticks, and seaweed all cemented together naturally with their own bird droppings. Females lay up to six eggs and both adults incubate the eggs and take care of the chicks. While Brandt’s cormorants and common murres like flat surfaces found on offshore rock formations, pigeon guillemots and pelagic cormorants take a different approach by selecting their nesting sites along the sheer rock faces of seaside cliffs. Pigeon guillemots can be observed generally nesting along these cliffs utilizing small crevice openings, and normally care for between one and two chicks. Pelagic cormorants prefer the steep cliffs as well for the protection against predators, plus they set up their nest sites spread out from each other facing the ocean for quick access to the sea.
Photo of a group of Brandt’s cormorants including both adults and recently hatched chicks hanging around their nesting site featuring individual nest sites made of dry matter containing such materials as grasses, weeds, sticks and seaweed materials all cemented naturally together with the cormorant’s own bird droppings.
Photo of Brandt’s cormorants featuring both adults and their young chicks staying close to them food and protection, one of the seabird species Birders can observe from several oceanfront park settings including the Cape Meares State Scenic Viewpoint, the Yaquina Bay Outstanding Natural Area, and the Heceta Head Lighthouse State Scenic Viewpoint.
Photo of pigeon guillemots nesting along the cliff faces located at the Cape Meares National Wildlife Refuge, another species of nesting seabirds coming ashore to breed every spring, usually hatching up to two chicks high above the ocean waters in protected areas far away from predators after a month-long incubation period.
Photo of pelagic cormorants tending to their individual nesting sites straddling the ocean cliffs along the coastline of the Yaquina Bay Outstanding Natural Area, an ideal setting for these seabirds seeking protection from their predators as well as allowing them a quick flight path down to the ocean waters for feeding on small fishes and marine invertebrates.


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