It's National Wildlife Day and encountering wildlife can be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity! For their safety as well as yours, check out our Wildlife Viewing Guidelines and take the pledge to protect your #WildSanctuaries!
Found throughout the ocean, this one was spotted in NOAA Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary taking a dive by a photographer.ĭo you have a great photo, like this one, taken in a sanctuary? You have one day left to submit it to our annual Get Into Your Sanctuary photo contest! They feed almost exclusively on krill, straining huge volumes of ocean water through their baleen plates (which hang from the roof of the mouth and work like a sieve). Today is the last day of our Get Into Your Sanctuary photo contest! Submit your sanctuary photos and you could be featured in our yearly Earth Is Blue magazine, on our website, and in our Earth Is Blue campaign on social media.īlue whales are the largest animals ever to live on our planet. It's a B&B for seals and sea lions surrounding sanctuary waters serve up a seafood feast for humpback and blue whales, white sharks, and giant sunfish. with over 300,000 seabirds, including Tufted Puffins.
Fish & Wildlife Service refuge is the largest seabird rookery in the contiguous U.S. San Francisco's most exclusive neighborhood is a rocky island group 27 miles offshore, at the Farallon Islands near NOAA's Greater Farallones National Marine Sanctuary! What are your favorite species to spot on a dive? The sanctuary protects more than 1,400 species of other invertebrates and a wide variety of algae, several seagrasses, humpback whales and over a dozen other species of whales and dolphins, hundreds of fish species, over 30 seabird species, and hawksbill and green sea turtles. Over 150 species of coral make up the centerpiece of marine life in NOAA National Marine Sanctuary of American Samoa. Looking for a place filled with life and color? NOAA welcomes your input about the proposal during the public comment period which ends tomorrow! The proposed sanctuary would celebrate the area's unique history and heritage and provide a national stage for promoting tourism and recreation.
In April 2019, in response to a community-based sanctuary nomination, NOAA announced its intent to designate a new national marine sanctuary in New York's eastern Lake Ontario. Whale would you look at that, it's already Friday! Are you leaping for joy like this humpback whale and sea lion in NOAA's Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary? Let us know how you plan to #RecreateResponsibly this weekend. These distinctive hawks are at the top of the food chain in the Chesapeake Bay watershed and are talented fishers, often spotted plunging feet-first into the water to catch fish. The shipwrecks of Mallows Bay-Potomac River National Marine Sanctuary provide prime nesting locations for many different bird species, including the iconic osprey. California sea lions can be very social on land and in the water, setting a great example for today! Today is National Day of Encouragement! This day is dedicated to uplifting people (or sea lions) around us and making a positive impact.
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