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Listen for whales. Open source software to help recover the endangered Southern Resident killer whales.
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Thanks to listener Cindi who caught the first faint calls around 8:02, you can listen live to what sounds like J, K, and L pods returning together to Puget Sound tonight!

live.orcasound.net/listen/port-...
November 10, 2025 at 4:26 AM
orcasound.bsky.social
Amazing Haro humpback bout early this morning (11/9, 3:30-3:51 Pacific)! Probably the best validation opportunity yet for the DAS4orcas (and humpbacks!) project with @uwbothell.bsky.social !

Try minute 3:42 for the most intense signals.

live.orcasound.net/bouts/bout_0...

#psws #das4orcas
November 9, 2025 at 8:02 PM
orcasound.bsky.social
J pod calls on the Sunset Bay hydrophone! Listen live here -- live.orcasound.net/listen/sunse...

And consider how the noise from the Edmonds-Kingston ferry might be affecting their ability to seek fall chum salmon at the moment!
November 7, 2025 at 10:45 PM
orcasound.bsky.social
J, K, and L pod members calling this evening at Sunset Bay. Tune in now to hear an amazing variety of calls, lots of echolocation, and some intermittent whistles!

live.orcasound.net/listen/sunse...

#psws
November 2, 2025 at 4:12 AM
orcasound.bsky.social
Between ship noise, a listener detected humpback non-song vocalization around 9pm this evening (10/25). This is a first for Orcasound Lab in Haro Strait this fall! (& will provide valuable test data for the DAS4oras project...)

live.orcasound.net/bouts/bout_0...

#wssjis #psws
October 26, 2025 at 6:52 AM
orcasound.bsky.social
J pod heard NB in Haro Strait 7:30-8 this morning! Thanks to @orcabehaviorinstitute.org for the heads up & direction context!

Here's the bout with faint S04s -- live.orcasound.net/bouts/bout_0...

Strongest signals ~7:50 will provide 1st test of the DAS4orcas fiberoptic cable...

#wssjis
#psws
October 24, 2025 at 4:26 AM
orcasound.bsky.social
9/23/25 23:01-23:31 SRKW calls, clicks, and faint whistles heard by live-listeners on the Orcasound Lab hydrophone in Haro Strait between noise from passing chemical & oil tankers and their tugs. Replay, share, & download the 30-minute bout here -- live.orcasound.net/bouts/bout_0...

#wssjis #psws
September 24, 2025 at 7:11 AM
orcasound.bsky.social
Enjoy replaying & sharing this bout using this new visualization, including a spectrogram! Also, if you like Python, you can now select the EXPORT BOUT button and get a JSON file with raw data pointers and a Python script that will access the open S3 buckets and convert to WAV or MP4.
September 22, 2025 at 9:29 PM
orcasound.bsky.social
J pod signals heard for nearly 3 hours last night (9/21/25) from 19:25-22:21, including lots of calls and echolocation clicks. Some of the clearest calls (and lowest vessel noise levels) happened around 20:00.

live.orcasound.net/bouts/bout_0...

#killerwhale #srkw #j-pod
#wssjis #psws #whalesky
September 22, 2025 at 9:25 PM
orcasound.bsky.social
What is going on?!
September 20, 2025 at 2:03 AM
orcasound.bsky.social
Seems like west towards San Juan Island (thanks recent to WSSJI observations)!

Maybe we'll get to listen for them tonight in Haro?! salishsea.io?x=-13678949&...
September 12, 2025 at 10:04 PM
orcasound.bsky.social
J pod called on the Orcasound Lab hydrophones for ~1.25 hr this eve as they traveled north in Haro Strait. Thanks to listeners for detecting their calls, whistles, and clicks. Here's the whole bout, but listen at 6pm for really cool vocalizations!

live.orcasound.net/bouts/bout_0...

#wssjis
#psws
September 10, 2025 at 5:02 AM
orcasound.bsky.social
00:05 Lots of S04 calls, whistles, and echolocation. It sounds like J pod is BACK after a long summer hiatus!

Listen live here -- live.orcasound.net/listen/orcas...

#orcas #srkw #whalesky #killerwhales #bioacoustics
#wssjis
September 4, 2025 at 7:08 AM
orcasound.bsky.social
The OrcaHello system detected Bigg's calls last night around 01:50 in Haro Strait. Here's the recording from the Orcasound Lab hydrophones -- aifororcas.azurewebsites.net/detections/d...

#wssjis
#psws
#biggs
#orcas
August 1, 2025 at 10:24 PM
orcasound.bsky.social
10:37-10:53 this a.m., Bigg's #orcas called on the Orcasound Lab hydrophone. Thanks to AIS/radar vessel tracks & Pete Ancich sharing IDs, we know these sounds came from ~10 southbound orcas: the T36A & T65B matrilines.

LIsten to this highlight -- live.orcasound.net/reports/cand...

#wssjis
#psws
July 25, 2025 at 2:07 AM
orcasound.bsky.social
10:40 Bigg's KW calls on the Orcasound Lab hydrophone! Probably two different groups, based on relative amplitudes and whale watch boats that are already southbound past the site... based on the M2 radar system.

live.orcasound.net/listen/orcas...

#orcas
#Biggs
#wssjis
#wssji
July 24, 2025 at 5:46 PM
orcasound.bsky.social
OrcaHello AI thought the Bigg's calls were SRKWs when the vessel noise subsided. Here's and example clip -- aifororcas.azurewebsites.net/detections/d...
May 9, 2025 at 1:10 AM
orcasound.bsky.social
11:10 Bigg's KW calls this morning on the Orcasound Lab hydrophone in Haro Strait! Thanks to David Howitt for the heads up.

Replay reports from other listeners via the new bouts page -- live.orcasound.net/bouts

Or listen live -- live.orcasound.net/listen/orcas...

#killerwhale #biggs
#wssji #psws
May 8, 2025 at 6:13 PM
orcasound.bsky.social
Sat 5/3/25 ~15:55 -- 3 orcas NEbound into Haro Strait from Canadian side (via #WSSJI Facebook page post by Ryan Michael).
May 3, 2025 at 11:46 PM
orcasound.bsky.social
15:15:33 PDT Likely Bigg's calls detected by OrcaHello AI on the North San Juan Channel hydrophone!

Do you agree these are Bigg's calls coming through some vessel noise?

aifororcas.azurewebsites.net/detections/d...

#orcas #biggs
#killerwhale #bioacoustics
#wssji
#psws
April 22, 2025 at 11:46 PM
orcasound.bsky.social
Wednesday 4/16/25 16:45 SRKW calls detected by the OrcaHello AI on the Orcasound Lab hydrophone. Listen to this clip's crazy sequence of excitement and S04 calls, whistles, and squealing -- likely from J pod:

aifororcas.azurewebsites.net/detections/d...

#orcas #srkw #j-pod
#bioacoustics
#wssji
April 17, 2025 at 8:06 AM
orcasound.bsky.social
08 Apr 2025 05:55:54 PDT -- Bigg's killer whale calls detected this morning by the OrcaHello AI!

aifororcas.azurewebsites.net/detections/d...

#orca #killerwhale #biggs
#wssji
April 8, 2025 at 3:48 PM
orcasound.bsky.social
Bigg's KW calls, whistles, and echolocation clicks detected around 4 a.m. this morning (3/25 Tues). They fooled the OrcaHello AI into thinking it was hearing SRKWs twice. No human listeners reported them.

Best example clip --
aifororcas.azurewebsites.net/detections/d...

#orca
#biggs
#wssji
March 25, 2025 at 5:11 PM
orcasound.bsky.social
17:50 Hearing percussives, whistles, and a fain S16 call on the Orcasound Lab live stream. Listen in to the binaural array here — live.orcasound.net/listen/orcas...

#orca
#srkw
March 24, 2025 at 12:55 AM
orcasound.bsky.social
14:09:09 PDT -- OrcaHello AI thought some of the Bigg's calls were SRKWs...

aifororcas.azurewebsites.net/detections/d...

#orca
#biggs
#wssji
March 21, 2025 at 11:23 PM