Kodiak wildlife

Here is our running list of the wildlife we saw during our summer in Kodiak:

Mammals:

Grey whale
Fin whale
humpback whale
snowshoe hare
steller sea lion
red squirrel
sea otter
red fox
Kodiak brown bear
Sitka black-tailed deer

Birds:

black-billed magpie
bald eagle
black oystercatcher
glaucous-wing gull
herring gull?
common raven
common eider
horned puffin

Fish:

dolly varden
king salmon
red salmon
halibut
starry flounder
tidepool sculpin
pink salmon
silver salmon

Wildflowers and other plants:

Shooting star
Salmonberry
nootka lupine
sitka spruce
chocolate lily
cranesbill
Alaska violet
mountain avens
narcissus-flowered anemone
cow parsnip
devil’s club
wooly lousewort
coastal paintbrush
brook saxifrage
beach greens
mountain harebell
dwarf fireweed
beach pea
purple mountain saxifrage

Invertebrates:

blue mussel
hairy triton
true star (type of sea star)
frilled anemone
Christmas anemone
orange colonial anemone
leech (freshwater)
acorn barnacle
thatched barnacle
pacific rock oyster
little six-rayed star
dogwinkle (several types)
seaweed isopod
beach hopper
striped hermit crab
black leather chiton
striped chiton
sponges (many types and colors)
ctenophora (comb jelly)
sunflower sea star (dead on beach)

Other:

bull kelp
bladderwrack
dulse
laminaria