Watchable Wildlife Guide

Spanning the entire length of the Oregon coast, the wilderness islands and windswept headlands of Oregon Islands National Wildlife Refuge are celebrated for their abundant wildlife, spectacular views, and rugged grandeur. Rocky islands and sheer cliffs provide isolated breeding and resting habitat...

Where the sinuous Coquille River meets the Pacific Ocean, the nutrient-rich waters slowly ebb and flow over the mudflats, salt marshes, and forested wetlands at Bandon Marsh National Wildlife Refuge.

Old-growth forest surrounded by a tumultuous ocean set the primeval scene at Cape Meares National Wildlife Refuge. Its cliffs support thousands of nesting seabirds, a pair of Peregrine Falcons, spectacular views of the roiling Pacific and its inhabitants.

This 15-acre refuge and Wilderness supports breeding seabird colonies and boasts the only pupping site of Steller Sea Lions on the north Oregon coast.

The mosaic of pastures, woodlands, coastal prairie, tidal marsh and mudflats at Nestucca Bay National Wildlife Refuge support ducks, geese, salmon, songbirds and the threatened Oregon Silverspot Butterfly.

Representing some of the most photogenic estuarine habitat along the Pacific Coast Scenic Byway, Siletz Bay National Wildlife Refuge's habitats include salt marsh, mudflats, sloughs and conifer-hardwood forests, all of which are essential to shorebirds, ducks, wading birds, and Coho and Chinook...