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Pacific gray whales known as the Sounders are making their annual appearance in Puget Sound. Author: Associated Press Updated: 8:50 AM PST March 5, 2021 SEATTLE — A group of Pacific gray whales known as the Sounders because they stop over in Puget Sound during their coastal migration is beginning to arrive in the region.  As of Wednesday, at least four had been spotted.  Scientists with the nonprofit Cascadia Research Collective say they tend to congregate of...

Endangered predators and endangered prey: Seasonal diet of Southern Resident killer whales M. Bradley Hanson , Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – review & editing Affilia...

Pregnant orca in J pod appears to have lost her baby, scientists say KIRO 7 News Staff A day after a new orca calf was reported to have been born into the L pod, it appears J-46 in the J pod may have lost her calf, scientists say. The Orca Network said that in October 2020, J-46 appeared to be “very pregnant” in a photo taken off the coast of Point Robinson, but seems to have lost that girth, recent drone footage revealed. “Reproductive failure has been the main factor res...

Surprise! New calf spotted in southern resident orca L Pod By Q13 News Staff Big news for the southern residents! SAN JUAN ISLANDS, Wash. - Researchers noticed something new when the J, K and L pods were all spotted in the Haro Strait on Tuesday morning: a new calf, L125!  According to Ken Balcomb with the Center for Whale Research, all three pods were seen swimming in the Haro Strait and Swanson Channel. CWR staff then spotted a calf trailing 30-year-old orca, L86, also known as Suprise! The...

FRIDAY HARBOR, Wash. (AP) — Whale researchers say another calf has been born to the...

Surprise! Endangered L pod welcomes new orca calf; spotted between Washington and Canada Sign In FacebookTwitterEmail 1of3 New calf, L125, with mom, L86Photo by Dave Ellifrit, Center for Whale ResearchShow MoreShow Less 2of3 Pacific Northwest orca with Mount Baker in the background near the Strait of Georgia off the coast of Vancouver, British ColumbiaSergio Amiti/Getty ImagesShow MoreShow Less 3of3 Theres a new, happy surprise swimming around in the cold waters of the Salish Sea: an orca calf....

A Group of Orca Outcasts Is Now Dominating an Entire Sea Katharine Gammon © Melanie Lambrick On a warm September afternoon, on San Juan Island off the northwestern coast of Washington State, I boarded J2, a sleek black-and-white whale-watching vessel. The boat was named after a locally famous orca, or killer whale, affectionately known as “Granny.” Until her disappearance in 2016, Granny was the matriarch of J-pod, one of the three resident orca groups, or pods, that live ...

Link Copied On a warm September afternoon, on San Juan Island off the northwestern coast of Washington State, I boarded J2, a sleek black-and-white whale-watching vessel. The boat was named after a locally famous orca, or killer whale, affectionately known as “Granny.” Until her disappearance in 2016, Granny was the matriarch of J-pod, one of the three resident orca groups, or pods, that live in the surrounding Salish Sea. For what some experts think was more than a hundred years, Granny re...

Posted: Saturday, January 16, 2021 12:16 The Canadian Coast Guard is opening the first Marine Mammal Desk to protect orcas and other cetaceans on Canada’s west coast. The threats to orcas, also called Southern Resident killer whales, include noise and disturbance from boats, ship strikes, entanglements and reduced availability of their favourite prey, chinook salmon. The orcas are listed as endangered under Canada’s Species at Risk Act.  The non-profit Orca Network reports that, as o...

Protesters gather in front of Seaquarium in continued quest to free whale Published:  Tags:  VIRGINIA KEY, Fla. – A protest is underway at Miami Seaquarium in the latest call to free Lolita, the 20-foot-long, 7,000-pound orca who has lived at the Miami tourist attraction for 50 years. Protesters, including someone dressed as Santa Claus, made their way to Virginia Key on Christmas Eve day, in what has become an ongoing fight for what they say should be the orca’s release. Activists say th...