Revised 7/15/2014 KILLER WHALE (Orcinus orca): Eastern North Pacific Southern Resident Stock
Killer whales have a cosmopolitan distribution, ranging from equatorial waters to polar regions, with highest densities found in coastal temperate waters (Forney and Wade 2006). Along the west coast of North America, killer whales occur along the entire Alaskan coast as far north as Barrow (George e...
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| Online Access: | http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.571.3180 http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/pr/sars/2013/po2013_killerwhale-enps.pdf |
| Summary: | Killer whales have a cosmopolitan distribution, ranging from equatorial waters to polar regions, with highest densities found in coastal temperate waters (Forney and Wade 2006). Along the west coast of North America, killer whales occur along the entire Alaskan coast as far north as Barrow (George et al. 1994, Lowry et al. 1987, Clarke et al. 2013), in British Columbia and Washington inland waterways (Bigg et al. 1990), and along the outer coasts of Washington, Oregon, and California (Barlow and Forney 2007). Seasonal and year-round occurrence has been noted for killer whales throughout Alaska (Braham and Dahlheim 1982) and in the intra-coastal waterways of British Columbia and Washington State, where pods have been labeled as ‘resident, ’ ‘transient, ’ and ‘offshore ’ (Bigg et al. 1990, Ford et al. 1994) based on aspects of morphology |
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