Diet Overlap

Ptychoramphus aleuticus (Cassin's Auklet)
Balaenoptera musculus (Blue Whale)

Common Diet

Euphausia pacifica (Pacific krill)
Thysanoessa spinifera

Common Habitat

Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary
Channel Islands National Park
Farallon National Wildlife Refuge
Pacific Rim National Park Reserve
Point Reyes National Seashore

Attributes / relations provided by
1Ocean climate, euphausiids and auklet nesting: inter-annual trends and variation in phenology, diet and growth of a planktivorous seabird, Ptychoramphus aleuticus, Christine L. Abraham, William J. Sydeman, MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES, Vol. 274: 235–250, 2004
2Food Web Relationships of Northern Puget Sound and the Strait of Juan de Fuca : a Synthesis of the Available Knowledge, Charles A. Simenstad, Bruce S. Miller, Carl F. Nyblade, Kathleen Thornburgh, and Lewis J. Bledsoe, EPA-600 7-29-259 September 1979
3Blue whale habitat and prey in the California Channel Islands, Paul C. Fiedler, Stephen B. Reilly, Roger P. Hewitt, David Demer, Valerie A. Philbrick, Susan Smith, Wesley Armstrong, Donald A. Croll, Bernie R. Tershy, Bruce R. Mate, Deep-Sea Research II 45 (1998) 1781-1801