Harbor seal

Phoca vitulina · Phocidae

The harbor seal, also known as the common seal, is a true seal found along temperate and Arctic marine coastlines of the Northern Hemisphere. The most widely distributed species of pinniped, they are found in coastal waters of the northern Atlantic and Pacific oceans, Baltic and North seas.

Where the Harbor seal lives

Recorded in Netherlands, United States of America, France, Denmark, United Kingdom, Sweden, Canada, Norway, Germany and Ireland (Europe and North America).

Most records fall in Zeeland, Zuid-Holland, California, Alaska, British Columbia and Midtjylland.

See the Harbor seal’s range on the globe

Conservation status

Least concern (LC). Not at risk: it is doing well in the wild. Categories are the IUCN Red List as republished by GBIF.

Sources

The range is a density of 338,683 georeferenced GBIF records, not an expert-drawn map. Description from Wikipedia.