Species List
ACS trips to Baja offer more than friendly gray whales. The Baja Lagoons and Sea of Cortez trip explores hundreds of miles of coastal waters and desert islands that teem with whales, dolphins, seals, and birds. Whether it's whales or birds that you want to see, this trip can show you more than you could possibly imagine!
CETACEANS
Blue whale
Fin whale
Humpback whale
Bryde's whale
Gray whale
Minke whale
Sperm whale
Pilot whale
Bottlenose whale
Common dolphin
Pacific white-sided dolphin
PINNIPEDS
California sea lion
Elephant seal
Harbor seal
BIRDS
Common loon
Eared grebe
Black-footed albatross
Laysan albatross
Pink-footed shearwater
Black-vented shearwater
Black storm petrel
Ashy storm petrel
Red-billed tropicbird
Blue-footed booby
Brown booby
Brown pelican
Double-crested cormorant
Brandt's cormorant
Pelagic cormorant
Magnificent frigatebird
Great blue heron
Great egret
Snowy egret
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Little blue heron
Tri-colored heron
Reddish egret
Black-crowned night heron
Yellow-crowned night heron
White ibis
Brant
Red-breasted merganser
Turkey vulture
Osprey
Northern harrier
American kestrel
Peregrine falcon
Gambel's quail
Clapper rail
Common moorhen
American coot
Black-bellied plover
Wilson's plover
American oystercatcher
Black oystercatcher
Greater yellowlegs
Willet wandering tattler
Spotted sandpiper
Whimbrel
Long-billed curlew
Marbled godwit
Black turnstone
Surfbird
Sanderling
Western sandpiper
Lest sandpiper
Dowitcher (spp.)
Pomarine jaeger
Bonaparte's gull
Heermann's gull
Ring-billed gull
California gull
Yellow-footed gull
Western gull
Glaucous-winged gull
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Caspian tern
Royal tern
Elegant tern
Common tern
Xantus' murrelet
Craveri's murrelet
Cassin's auklet
White-winged dove
Ground dove
White-throated swift
Xantus' hummingbird (Baja endemic)
Anna's hummingbird
Costa's hummingbird
Belted kingfisher
Gila woodpecker
Ladder-backed woodpecker
Black phoebe
Violet-green swallow
Raven
Verdin
Cactus wren
Rock wren canyon wren
Ruby-crowned kinglet
Blue-gray gnatcatcher
Black-tailed gnatcatcher
Northern mockingbird
Gray thrasher (Baja endemic)
Phainopepla
Loggerhead shrike
Orange-crowned warbler
Yellow-rumped warbler
Black-and-white warbler
Common yellowthroat
Northern cardinal
Lark sparrow
Black-throated sparrow
Savannah sparrow
Song sparrow
White-crowned sparrow
Hooded oriole
House finch
Lesser goldfinch
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ACS Whale Adventures reward passengers with a great learning vacation and the satisfaction of knowing that a portion of your vacation dollars is used to fund education, conservation and research about whales, dolphins and porpoises. Priced competitively with for-profit outfitters, our Whale Adventures provide experienced naturalists who are your guides on nature walks, snorkels and whalewatches, and present slide lectures in the evenings. We also provide an extensive syllabus to help you learn about and appreciate the incredible wilderness of Baja.
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