Best routes from Salem to Oregon Coast: To Astoria, Seaside, Cannon Beach and Manzanita â take I-5 north to Portland, then take 217 exit near Lake Oswego, following âOregon Beachesâ sign â take 217 to Hwy 26, then to coast.
Northern pintail range. A migratory species, the northern pintail breeds from Alaska and the central Canadian Arctic across Greenland, Iceland and Scandinavia to Kamchatka, Russia, and south to the western and central United States, the United Kingdom, Central Europe and the Caspian Sea.
On the rocky shoals and beaches of Hawaiâiâs Northwestern Islands, where most of the stateâs 1,100 remaining monk seals but few humans live, this pinnipedâs population has decreased 4 percent a year during the past decade and an estimated 60 percent from the 1950s.