Once considered conspecific with the Long Billed Murrelet, the Marbled Murrelet is a small member of the family Alcidae. Marbled Murrelets thrive in old growth forests and the decline of old growth on the Pacific coast have made this bird a flagship species for forest protection.

The Western Gull and Glaucous Winged Gull are large sea fairing birds, roughly the same size at around 20-24 inches in length. Native to the American Pacific coast, the two species exist in separate ranges but form a hybrid zone around the Olympic Peninsula.

Owing to difficult involved in banding and recapture, the behavior of the American Crow is poorly studied. Like most Corvids, the American Crow is omnivorous, feeding on whatever it can get its beak on. These crows mate for life, living in small flocks of other mated pairs.

The national bird of the United States, the Bald Eagle is a large bodied bird of prey native to the vast majority of North America. Easily recognized by its striking white head feathers, the Bald Eagle nearly driven into extinction in the 1960s but has since recovered.

The White Tailed Deer is a highly adaptable member of the Cervidae family native to North, Central, and South America. While common in the Eastern United States, the Columbian White Tailed Deer was one common in western Oregon and endures to this day.

Roughly the same size as a modern African Elephant, the Woolly Mammoth was well adapted for life in the frigid steppes. The Mammoth’s range was vast, stretching from the western edges of Iberia to the Appalachian Mountains. Some Mammoths even survived well into the Holocene.

The Northern Elephant Seal is one of the largest members of the clade Pinnipedia, overshadowed only by the Southern Elephant Seal. During the breeding season, fights between competing males over females are brutal and bloody, but don’t often result in fatalities.

A member of the dolphin family, the Orca inhabits a vast range across the globe, stretching from one pole to the other and inhabiting nearly everywhere in between. True to their name, Killer feed on whatever they want, even including elephant seals.

Described in 2019, the Pacific Mastodon was a large proboscidean native to North America during the Pliocene and Pleistocene, dying out around 11,000 years ago. Pacific Mastodon were largely browsers, feeding on leaves and woody plants, avoiding competition with Mammoths.

Eager to prove himself, a young Mammoth charges down the sands toward the Beach Master, much to the annoyance of the colony Northern Elephant Seals and the young bull’s herd.

This piece took a long time, but I’m quite happy with the results. Ten different species are represented, including five birds and five mammals.