Wildlife
The park supports a diversity of fish and wildlife and are an important nesitng site for sea birds such as puffins, cormorants, kittiwakes, and guillemots, emperor geese, harlequin ducks, Steller's eider, and notably the bald eagle. All five species of Pacific salmon spawn including the commercially productive sockeye salmon run into the Chignik system. Sea lions, gray whales, harbor seals and sea otters can all be found along the coast. Brown bears are a common sight in the coastal meadows in spring and summer when they come to feed on the spawning salmon. Often as many as 500 brown bears may inhabit the Black Lake-Chignik Lake Area during August, making it one of most dense seasonal concentrations of brown bears in North America. Caribou and moose are also under protection in the park. The moose in particular inhabit the Mother Goose Lake and the lines of the King Salmon River, also supporting populations of hare and lynx.
Read more about this topic: Alaska Peninsula National Wildlife Refuge
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