KWTales Program News
A Man’s Dream Can Be A Child’s Vision: Killer Whale Tales Comes to Friday Harbor Elementary SchoolBy Sandy Buckley, Postcards from Friday Harbor Oh—to be a ten year old in...
KWTales heads back to San Juans for the summer field season
After a very busy year, in which we visited over 9000 children at over 65 schools...
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Orca News from Orcanetwork.org
Comments: Evolving rules in San Juans may change how visitors go whale watchingBy Cassandra Brooks Seattle Times staff reporter First, the orcas may be the most...
4 Southern Residents missing and presumed dead
(L5 in front, L74 foreground, L73 in background. Picture taken from...
Remembering Lolita- Whidbey Examiner
By Sue Ellen White Examiner Staff Writer “You could hear the whales squealing...
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Southern Resident Killer Whale Research
Vessel traffic disrupts the foraging behavior of southern resident killer whalesDavid Lusseau1,*,**, David E. Bain2,**, Rob Williams3, 5, Jodi C. Smith4 ABSTRACT: Vessel traffic may have contributed to southern resident killer whales Orcinus orca becoming endangered. To determine the importance of this threat, we measured the behavior of southern residents in the presence and absence of vessels from 2003 to 2005 at 2 different... [Read more of this review]
Species and stock identification of prey consumed by endangered southern resident killer whales in their summer range
M. Bradley Hanson, Robin W. Baird, John K. B. Ford, Jennifer Hempelmann-Halos, Donald M. Van Doornik, John R. Candy, Candice K. Emmons, Gregory S. Schorr, Brian Gisborne, Katherine L. Ayres, Samuel K. Wasser, Kenneth C. Balcomb, Kelley Balcomb-Bartok, John G. Sneva, Michael J. Ford (2010). Endang Species Res Vol. 11: 69-82, 2010 ABSTRACT Recovery... [Read more of this review]
Prey selection and food sharing by fish-eating ‘resident’ killer whales (Orcinus orca) in British-Columbia
Ford, John K.B., Graeme M. Ellis (2005). . Canadian Science Advisory Secretariat Research Document – 2005/041. ABSTRACT Three distinct, socially-isolated forms, or ecotypes, of killer whales (Orcinus orca), inhabit coastal waters of British-Columbia, Washington State, and southeastern Alaska. The so-called transient ecotype feeds primarily on... [Read more of this review]
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