Marine life
The fjords of Aysén are narrow, deep and sheltered from the ocean. Fresh water from glaciers and rivers flows into their salt water. Dolphins and otters keep to the shores and river mouths, sea lions to the rocks, seabirds to the air above.
A small resident population of Chilean dolphins lives in the Puyuhuapi Channel, estimated at fewer than one hundred animals: 42 adults in the upper channel and 55 between Puerto Cisnes and Magdalena Island. Much of their habitat overlaps with salmon farms.
Marine mammals · 8
A small dolphin that stays within a few hundred metres of the shore and near river mouths. The Puyuhuapi Channel holds a small resident population, estimated at fewer tha…
Found along the whole Puyuhuapi Channel, most often in its upper part, in Queulat Inlet and north of Puerto Cisnes. Nobody has counted the population yet. Formerly listed…
A South American otter. A large part of the population lives in marine fjords and channels south of 44° S, preferring river mouths and calm water. It avoids open coast wi…
An otter of rocky, ocean-exposed coasts. It copes with surf and also enters sheltered bays. In Aysén it lives along the coast from the Guaitecas archipelago. Not to be co…
Recorded in the Puyuhuapi Channel and Magdalena Island area.
Recorded in the Puyuhuapi Channel and Magdalena Island area. Also listed in the literature as Otaria flavescens.
A porpoise recorded in the Puyuhuapi Channel and Magdalena Island area.
Recorded in the Puyuhuapi Channel and Magdalena Island area.
Seabirds and shorebirds · 9
Listed in the field guide to the birds of the Patagonian archipelagos of the Aysén region. Full profile coming soon.
Listed in the field guide to the birds of the Patagonian archipelagos of the Aysén region. Full profile coming soon.
Listed in the field guide to the birds of the Patagonian archipelagos of the Aysén region. Full profile coming soon.
Listed in the field guide to the birds of the Patagonian archipelagos of the Aysén region. Full profile coming soon.
Listed in the field guide to the birds of the Patagonian archipelagos of the Aysén region. Full profile coming soon.
Listed in the field guide to the birds of the Patagonian archipelagos of the Aysén region. Full profile coming soon.
Listed in the field guide to the birds of the Patagonian archipelagos of the Aysén region. Full profile coming soon.
Listed in the field guide to the birds of the Patagonian archipelagos of the Aysén region. Full profile coming soon.
Listed in the field guide to the birds of the Patagonian archipelagos of the Aysén region. Full profile coming soon.