What animals are indigenous to the San Francisco Bay Area?

The Coolest Animals You Can Find In The San Francisco Bay Area

• Great White Shark (Carcharodon carcharias) ...
• California Sea Lion (Zalophus californianus) ...
• Bat Ray (Myliobatis californica) ...
• North American River Otter (Lontra Canadensis) ...
• Tule Elk (Cervus canadensis nannodes)

1. What is native to San Francisco?
2. What are the dominant types of animals found in San Francisco?
3. What did the Native Americans call San Francisco Bay?
4. Are eucalyptus trees native to the Bay Area?
5. What kind of animals are in the bay?
6. Are there whales in San Francisco Bay?
7. What animal represents the Bay Area?
8. What kind of deer are in the Bay Area?
9. What bats are in the Bay Area?
10. Why is saving the San Francisco Bay important?
11. Why is the SF Bay Important?
12. Are bays endangered?

What is native to San Francisco?

The Ohlone are the predominant Indigenous group of the Bay Area, including the Chochenyo and the Karkin in East Bay, the Ramaytush in San Francisco, the Yokuts in South Bay and Central Valley, and the Muwekma tribe throughout the region.

What are the dominant types of animals found in San Francisco?

Gray, humpback and blue whales; Pacific white-sided dolphins; Harbor and Dall's Porpoises; California and Steller sea lions; Northern fur, Northern elephant and Harbor seals are common.

What did the Native Americans call San Francisco Bay?

For over 10,000 years, Native Americans have called the San Francisco Bay region home. Before the arrival of the Spanish, the San Francisco Peninsula was occupied by a people known as the Ohlone or Costanoan.

Are eucalyptus trees native to the Bay Area?

It is, as Jake Sigg puts it, “a big, grand, old tree.” Tall, gnarled, stripey-barked, with white flowers like sea anemones, blue gum eucalyptus are characteristic of the San Francisco Bay area, despite being native to an Australian island half a world away.

What kind of animals are in the bay?

The Bay is home to many fish, from the Bay anchovy to the sandbar shark. It supports blue crabs, horshoe crabs and American oysters. In fact, humans get over 500 million pounds of seafood from the Bay each year! Sea turtles, eels, dolphins, rays, seahorses, and jellyfish also fill the Bay waters.

Are there whales in San Francisco Bay?

"Over the last few years, our experts have observed gray whales frequenting San Francisco Bay in greater numbers and for longer periods of time. ... Malnutrition, entanglement and ship strikes have been the most common causes of death in whales studied locally in the Bay Area.

What animal represents the Bay Area?

A true San Francisco icon, the California sea lion can often be spotted lounging about on Pier 39 or along the Pacific Coast Highway.

What kind of deer are in the Bay Area?

Columbian blacktail deer, a subspecies of mule deer, are the most common deer in the Bay Area and California.

What bats are in the Bay Area?

Some of the bats you might spot include: California myotis, Yuma myotis, little brown, fringed myotis, big brown, silver-haired, red, hoary, and Mexican free-tailed. Just across the Golden Gate in Marin, it might be a little easier to go bat-watching.

Why is saving the San Francisco Bay important?

We protect and restore San Francisco Bay for people and wildlife, uniting the Bay Area to create a clean and healthy Bay. As climate change and pollution threaten the Bay, we lead initiatives to make our region sustainable for future generations.

Why is the SF Bay Important?

The San Francisco Bay is the largest estuary on the west coast. It includes unparalleled marshes and mudflats along the shoreline that provide food and shelter to fish and wildlife and account for 77% of California's remaining perennial estuarine wetlands.

Are bays endangered?

According to a report by Conservation Lands Network the Bay Area has 97 endangered or threatened species. We encourage everybody to do their share to help protect the natural environment for these rare species.