This Field Guide was produced by the San Diego Natural History Museum, with contributions from individuals from many institutions. Please see Field Guide Credits for a complete list of the people involved.

To identify an animal or plant
see picture guides to:

Fishes
Marine Mammals
Marine Invertebrates
Terrestrial Animals
Plants

Also see:
List of common names (right)
Index of scientific names

Where on Earth is Baja California?
What is this place called?
Map of film locations
A picture guide to places

PLACES
Sierra de San Francisco
Rock Art
Sierra de San Pedro Mártir
Vizcaino Desert
Isla Rasa
Mangrove Wetlands (not in film)

Earth and Sun
The forces that create an ocean oasis
Plate Tectonics
How the peninsula of Baja California
and the Sea of Cortés
were formed

Trips and Expeditions
Teacher's Guide
Field Guide Bibliography
Field Guide Glossary

Fishes
Angelfish
Barberfish
Cornetfish
Creolefish
Frogfish
Hammerhead shark
Hawkfish
Hogfish
Leather bass
Mackerel
Manta
Moray eel
Mullet
Pufferfish
Rainbow wrasse
Remora
Requiem shark
Sardines
Scorpionfish
Seahorse
Sergeant major
Tube blennies

Marine Mammals
California Sea Lion
Elephant Seal
Finback Whale
Guadalupe Fur Seal
Gray Whale
Humpback Whale
Harbor Seal
Pacific Bottle-nosed Dolphin

Marine Invertebrates
Barnacles
Corals, Sea fans
Fried egg jellyfish
Mysids
Sea elephant
Sponges
Staghorn hermit crab

Terrestrial Animals
Elegant Tern
Heermann's Gull
Osprey
Anna's Hummingbird
Kangaroo Rat
Speckled Rattlesnake
Other reptiles in the region

Plants
CACTI & OTHER SUCCULENTS
Agave
Barrel Cactus
Boojum Tree
Cardón
Cholla (O. molesta)
San Felipe Cholla
Club Cholla
Prickly-pear
Elephant Tree
Copal
Sour Pitaya

PERENNIALS & SHRUBS
Bursage

TREES
Guadalupe Palm
Jeffrey Pine
Pino Piñonero
Quaking Aspen

MANGROVES
In the region, not the film:
Black Mangrove
Red Mangrove
Sweet Mangrove
White Mangrove