Southern Resident Orca and Humpback Whales Highlighted

Volunteers are needed!

As we expand our reach, Sightings Reports, Maps and the new Magazine section, we are offering a greater quality and opening eyes and hearts to these amazing mammals. 

We would like to maintain a weekly publishing schedule which is difficult without more volunteers to share the load. Last Friday’s issue was skipped due to this lack of volunteers while two of our Directors, Susan MacKay and Judy Brant took on the role of orphaned bear cub rescuers. Taking time away from these reports and other society workings, they sent three tiny cubs into Critter Care’s rehabilitation facility.

Would you like to Volunteer and be a part of our growing Society? 

1. Assist with the preparation of these Sightings Reports – this is our number one current need – your location does not matter
2. Help incorporate our older information into our public Archives
3. Marketing and Communications – let’s talk
4. Fundraising – we are always in need
5. General – sometimes just a hand here and there is great

If you are interested, please send us a message by clicking VOLUNTEER in the sidebar or at the bottom of the page and we’ll be happy to contact you.

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15:14 • SRKW Orca heading South between Willow Point and Mitlenatch Island in Stait of Georgia. ?K-pod? Orca were travelling 5 to 7 knots. ▫ Leaving the Scene

12:06 • 2 Humpback Whale South-West of Savary Island off Grant Reefs in Strait of Georgia. ?Chinook and friend? ▫ On Scene

08:29 • 2 Humpback Whale off the South end of Harwood Island in Strait of Georgia. ?Chinook and friend?

An orca spotted three weeks ago entangled in a rope and float appears to be free, the Pacific Whale Watch Association says.

T77A, as the 19-year-old killer whale is known, was photographed off the Thetis Island-Chemainus ferry in Stuart Channel on Nov. 4, prompting a search by the Department of Fisheries and Oceans.

Check out this stunning footage of whales and orca off the coast of The Great Bear Rainforest.
The area may be famous as the home of the Spirit Bear, but hundreds of other beautiful creatures also call this stunning place home.

The major newspapers are starting to take notice of what we our readers have noted all Summer, the Humpback whales are frequenting our waters in greater numbers..and may be choosing to stay in the area to reproduce.

The first seasonal sighting of a Right whale off the coast of Georgetown, one of a worldwide population of only 700. The article looks at the dangers faced by the East Coast Right whale population and efforts to protect this and other cetacean species.

The demand from aquatic theme parks in Russia, China is fueling a new market for wild Orca, marine experts say

The Cascadia Research Group is teaming with the US Navy’s Submarine listening microphones to find and tag Beaked whales, the most elusive of deep sea whales, and the largest group of cetaceans…

Read about Whale Teeth. This article was submitted by Libby a future Marine Biologist, and currently a student in Allison Harmon’s homeschooling class. Allison’s class use the Society website resource pages when researching the aquatic animals project they are working on for the rest of the month. Thanks for your submission Libby, on behalf of our readers.

Read the background to this prize winning image, taken in South Africa in 2011, which shows a Bryde’s whale, a highly endangered creature, ripping through a swirling ball of sardines, gulping a huge mouthful in a single pass.

This volunteer opportunity supports a research project that is the longest ongoing study of a resident population of Bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) in the Mediterranean Sea. and is based in Croatia.

A breakthrough by Kiwi and Australian researchers has revealed amazing new insights into the patterns of southern Right whales, which could aid efforts to preserve the endangered ocean giants.

Work is underway by students and researchers to strip and prepare the skeleton of a 78-foot Blue whale that washed for display in Newport, OR.

An international team of marine biologists has made the first-ever field observations of rare Omura’s whales-one of the least known species of whales in the world – while working off the coast of Madagascar.
See more video and images of the Omura’s whales.

All along the Pacific Coast of N. America the El-Nino effect has made this an exceptional Summer for new whale species appearing. A Naturalist and Marine Biologist list off the new visitors who have shown up on the coast of Monterey CA this Summer.

Read the article accompanying this increadible video taken by the crew aboard the Grampian Protector who managed to witness the once-in-a-lifetime moment at the weekend when stationed 155 miles east of Aberdeen.
The eleven minute clip shows the school of Orca – including a mother and her baby – bashing their tails against the choppy waves and leaping in and out of the water.

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