Bremer Canyon Killer Whales Take Charge. Read the full story here: buff.ly/QA1fEYS
Photo by Naturaliste Charters
This is an encounter from 2024
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A Rare Visit from Bigg's Killer Whales. Read the full story here: buff.ly/iwbsrmL
Photo by David
This is an encounter from 2020
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That is sooooooooooooo cool!!!
A wet whale sighting from the Des Moines pier!
Prior to this week in the Salish Sea, the only time this whale has been documented was in Alaska in 2025.
An map/infographic from the Orca Behavior Institute about the three unidentified orcas that turned up near Vancouver, BC last week. They've only been seen once prior to turning up in the Salish Sea, and now are in Seattle, Washington!
Have you heard about the 3 mystery orcas that showed up near Vancouver last week and now were seen in Seattle today?
Get the details on what we know (thanks to the power of community science) and don't know about them here:
www.orcabehaviorinstitute.org/orca-updates...
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Whale in ocean
Squirrel in Tree
First Up: #1 seed Humpback Whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) vs #16 seed Red Squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris) #2026MMM
It's #DolphinAwarenessMonth! DYK there are between 36 & 40 species of dolphin swimming on Earth, depending on how you categorize certain subspecies? Maui’s dolphins are the smallest, coming in at an average of 50kg & 1.7m & Orcas are the largest at 6 tons and 9.5m
🖌️: Green Humour
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Vaquita's are porpoises! These are River Dolphins. Very similar appearances sometimes for sure!
We can't let #DolphinAwarenessMonth swim by without noticing! 🐬
#Dolphins are intelligent, social animals that play an important role in healthy ocean ecosystems. We can help protect them by reducing plastic pollution & respecting their space on the water.
#ProtectWhatYouLove
A skeleton of a fin whale hangs in the glass atrium at NHM Los Angeles; the enormous skull and mandibles point downward as if diving and to the right, with the ribcage and lumbar vertebrae rising to the upper left; there is a pink hue from sunset.
#whalewednesday Blue whales get all the attention, but fin whales (Balaenoptera physalus) are nearly as large - a maximum size of 85-90 feet (26-27 meters). This "little" 63 foot (19 m) skeleton is on display in the atrium at @nhm.org and was "collected" in 1926 at a whaling station in Humboldt Co.
Bigg's Killer Whales of Vargas Island. Read the full story here: buff.ly/PX90AhV
Photo by Marcie
This is an encounter from 2020
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Bigg's (Transient) and Resident's at the Beginning of the Season! Read the full story here: buff.ly/aLbXDND
Photo by Gary
This is an encounter from 2018
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A sighting of an #albino #bluewhale has been reported near #LoretoBay in #Mexico
Rare Blue Whale with Albinism Spotted in National Park in Unprecedented Milestone share.google/x9N7PaV5x75t...
📢 SURVEY: Do you use - or have you ever used - drones in marine mammal research? 🐳🐋If so, please complete our short survey and help us map the growing range of ways UAVs are being used around the world for marine mammal monitoring and research: app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/uhi/drones...
An infographic summarizing OBI's tracking of killer whales throughout the Salish Sea in February 2026 including a comparison of sightings by population over the last three years, a report on OBI's field encounters, and some highlights from the month.
You’ve seen the map, but here is another look at our February orca sightings stats throughout the Salish Sea. What do you make of the drop in Bigg's killer whale sightings last month? Are we returning to the "new normal" after 2 boom years, or might this decline continue throughout 2026?
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J Pod and Bigg's Double Header. Read the full story here: buff.ly/2WMhK7k
Photo by Skylar
This is an encounter from 2019
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Your regular reminder that a giraffe is more closely related to a humpback whale, than it is related to a lion.
hurray!!!
There are six species of river dolphin and one species of river porpoise and each of these species is an important indicator into the overall health of their river ecosystems.
Graphic from WWF
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It's #DolphinAwarenessMonth!
Although we tend to picture the ocean when we think of dolphins, there are currently thousands of dolphins swimming in major river systems in both South America and Asia.
Encounters with Humpback Dolphins. Read the full story here: buff.ly/qxHN0Cb
Photo by Raggy Charters
This is an encounter from 2024
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The trials we go through to see whales🐳 Listen to Tom's full whale tale in our latest episode!
#WhaleTales #WhaleTalesPodcast @guianadolphin.bsky.social
The matriarch is responsible for the transmission of all important information to the rest of her family including hunting locations and strategies, migration timing and patterns, language and culture.
Photo by Tasli
#InternationalWomensDay #WhaleTales
Killer Whales certainly know the value of the “woman’s” perspective.
They are one of the only species on Earth who’s females continue to live once they are no longer able to reproduce.
This is thought to be because of the key role the elder females play in leading their social groups.
Have you checked our our Naming of Things blog series? We take a deep dive (pun intended!) on the names of certain cetaceans - check out this one on Humpback Whales vs Humpback Dolphins!
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A map of the Salish Sea depicting unique reports of different groups of killer whales throughout February 2026. Blue dots are for Southern Residents, yellow dots for Northern Residents, red dots for Bigg's killer whales, and gray dots for groups that were confirmed to be orcas but were not identifiable to ecotype. Data were verified and compiled by the Orca Behavior Institute.
Here is our February 2026 Salish Sea killer whale sightings map, compiling orca reports from across the region.
We had 43 Bigg's killer whale sightings, a drop of more than 50% compared to February 2025!
Read our full monthly summary here:
www.orcabehaviorinstitute.org/sightings-ma...
The New England Aquarium’s Anderson Cabot Center for Ocean Life aerial survey team spotted three endangered blue whales on consecutive days over the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument and southern New England waters!
Read more:
A New Bigg's Calf! Read the full story here: buff.ly/497i4yN
Photo by @tomflip.bsky.social
This is an encounter from 2024
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