Harbour Seal (Pacific)

Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada (COSEWIC) assessment.  Be sure to scroll to the bottom of the page for possible further reports on the species.

Photos and information about the birth of a Pacific harbour seal.

Vancouver Sun Article (March 26th, 2007) regarding the proposed cull of seals around Courtenay, BC, Canada.

North Pacific Universities Marine Mammal Consortium - fast facts.

www.whaleresearch.com/thecenter/Encounters_2008_007.html - amazing photos capture the attack of transient killer whales on a harbour seal and a Dall's porpoise. 

http://www.mi.mun.ca/mi-net/fishdeve/harbor.htm - DFO page 

Scientific paper on seals getting an illness that originates with dogs (Giardia).

http://www.vanaqua.org/education/aquafacts/harbourseals.html - Vancouver Aquarium's Aquafacts

http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2003/09/02/harbour_seals030902.html - contaminants in habour seals (2003 article)

Pacific Wildlife Foundation’s species information. Be sure you click all the tabs e.g. "distribution" to find out all you can.

http://web.mala.bc.ca/sc403/Sea_Mammals/page14hs.htm - Malaspina University College's fact page

http://www.killerwhale.ca/animals-harbour-seal.html

http://www.aquatic.uoguelph.ca/mammals/whales/accounts/harbour/harbour.htm - Information from the University of Guelph, Ontario.  Be sure to explore all the pages, links given on the left. 

http://www.racerocks.com/racerock/rreo/rreoref/mmammals/sealsandsealions.htm - report from 1984 from Michael Bigg and Peter Olesiuk; dated but still good natural history information

  www.racerocks.com/racerock/marmam/mammals.htm and http://www.racerocks.com/racerock/archivemammals.htm
- involvement of Lester B. Pearson School in a fantastic marine mammal project.  Search the site at http://www.racerocks.com/racerock/web/sitemap.htm  

www.oceanlink.island.net - Bamfield Research Station’s detailed marine biology page search for your species

http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/jaap/pinn-pho.htm Not a Canadian page

http://www.dosits.org/gallery/intro.htm - click your species name to hear its sounds! and http://www.dosits.org/animals/intro.htm - study how marine mammals make sound and how sound effects them.

http://www.vanaqua.org/education/aquafacts/ - Vancouver Aquarium’s web data base of frequently asked questions about marine ecosystems; click "Harbour Seal"

http://www.vanaqua.org/aquanews/archive.html - enter the species name in the search field to get any AquaNews bulletins posted by the Vancouver Marine Sciences Centre

http://www.pagophilus.org/harbour.html - fact sheet  Not a Canadian page

http://www.seaworld.org/animal-info/info-books/harbor-seal/behavior.htm - harbour seal behaviour Not a Canadian page

http://nlbif.eti.uva.nl/bis/marine_mammals.php?selected=beschrijving&menuentry=soorten&id=67 - lots of detail about identification some information about  behaviour and threats. An international webpage. 

http://www.dosits.org/gallery/marinemm/2.htm - click pinnipeds and then harbor seal for acoustic samples

http://www.marinemammalcenter.org/learning/education/pinnipeds/harborseal.asp - This is an American website so be careful when using it for population estimates in BC and COSEWIC status in your report

http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/information/Phoca_vitulina.html Not a Canadian page

http://www.palomar.edu/oceanography/harbor_seals/facts.htm - detailed fact sheet Not a Canadian page

http://www.enature.com/fieldguides/intermediate.asp?curGroupID=5 - Click "marine mammals" and do a search for your animal. Excellent on-line field guides Not a Canadian page

http://netvet.wustl.edu/marine.htm  - net vet marine mammals; search links for information that may be relevant to your species Not a Canadian page