Posts Tagged ‘Orca calf’
Whalecome home! After record absence, Southern Resident orcas return to summer habitat
It was a “whale of a weekend” for the Southern Residents and those who know and love this unique community of endangered orcas. After being conspicuously absent from their traditional summer habitat in the inland waters of the Salish Sea – a transboundary body of water between Washington state in the US and British Columbia…
Read MoreMatriarch of Southern Resident orca community missing
In troubling news out of the Pacific Northwest, the Center for Whale Research announced this week that one of the critically endangered Southern Resident orcas, Samish (J14) is missing and is presumed dead. Samish is a 42-year-old matriarch in J pod, well-known to orca researchers and whale watchers in the area. For these tightly-knit, family-oriented…
Read MoreTwo Stranded Orcas Confirmed as Members of Endangered Southern Resident Population
April 13, 2016 Canada’s Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) announced preliminary necropsy results for two stranded orcas found in British Columbia waters in late March. Sadly, both orcas were determined to be members of the critically endangered Southern Resident orca community, now with just 83 individuals left in the wild (an 84th member, Tokitae,…
Read MoreOrca Calf Found Dead in Canada
An approximately 2-month-old female orca calf was found near Tofino, British Columbia just before Christmas Day last week. The immediate fear, of course, was that the calf was one of eight new babies born to the Southern Residents in the past year – a remarkable boom for the critically endangered population. These eight new calves…
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