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>Map >Satellite Lying approximately 1 kilometer (0.6 mile) south of Trinidad Head, Pilot Rock supports a minor sea-bird rookery. Breeding birds include the pelagic cormorant, Phalacrocorax pelagicus, Brandt's cormorant, Phalacrocorax penicillatus, pigeon guillemot, Cepphus columba and Western gull, Larus occidentalis.
There is a rich and diverse invertebrate subtidal fauna.
Integrity: Pristine, though the increasing small-craft traffic in the vicinity may disturb the breeding birds. A proposal has been made to include this rock in a Federal wildlife refuge.
Use: Research, observational.
Ref: Osborne, T. O., 1972. Ecology and Avian Use of the Coastal Rocks of Northern California. Unpub. M.A. Thesis, Humboldt State University, 215 pp.
July 1977
Inventory of California Natural Areas
Revision © 2008 Steven Louis Hartman
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