I'm committed to treating this app like every other- mostly neglecting it for the first few years, and then scrambling to get established until the app dies.

Anyways, here's a sea otter 🦦

and we thought yesterday was good...

this big bull type-D Orca came crusing past the ship early morning. tears may have been shed...

oh, and A23-A came past too

#WayDownSouth with @birdingdad.bsky.social

Here are our monthly Salish Sea killer whale sightings maps for 2024 as an animation! Do any patterns stand out to you? We'll have our annual maps and some summary stats for you later this week.

#orca #whalesightings #wildlifetracking #communityscience #washingtonstate #britishcolumbia #salishsea

New paper from my PhD provides genomic evidence that white shark livers are on the menu for Aussie killer whales!

See more here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

Today, I think the news needs more #hope (aka more #whales) -

The 7th #rightwhale calf of the season has been spotted in Florida! 🥰 This is the first calf for mother “Check Mark” (Catalog #3705), who is 18 years old
🐋🐋🐋🐋🐋🐋🐋

📷: Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission under NOAA permit 26919

At the age of 4 my dad let me watch a movie about a homeless kid who teams up with a native man and a lesbian to break an abused killer whale out of a marine park because the CEO wanted to kill him to collect insurance money and now I hate the United States and God