Orcasound
orcasound.bsky.social
Orcasound
@orcasound.bsky.social
Listen for whales. Open source software to help recover the endangered Southern Resident killer whales.
Gratitude to the Port Townsend Marine Science Center and their A-team volunteers led by Eric McRae who keep the hydrophone going.

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November 10, 2025 at 4:27 AM
November 7, 2025 at 10:46 PM
November 3, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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
What is going on?!
September 20, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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
Explore the map here -- salishsea.io?x=-13715566&...
July 25, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Great progress! Is this Google sheet the best place to look up which common name goes with which alphanumeric ID?

docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Or is another resource like finwave.io kept (more?) up-to-date?
Bigg's Orca/Killer Whale Nick Names
docs.google.com
July 2, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Here's a map of the T37s movement this morning!

salishsea.io?x=-13631413....
SalishSea.io
salishsea.io
June 24, 2025 at 9:39 PM