Eastern Temperate North Pacific Offshore Killer Whales ( Orcinus orca ): Occurrence, Movements, and Insights into Feeding Ecology

• Main Authors: Dalheim, Marilyn, Schulman-Janiger, Alisa, Black, Nancy, Ternullo, Richard, Ellifrit, Dave, Balcomb, Kenneth, III
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln 2008
• Subjects: Environmental Sciences; Pacific; Queen Charlotte; Killer Whale; Orca; Orcinus orca; Alaska; Killer whale
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/usdeptcommercepub/43; https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/context/usdeptcommercepub/article/1020/viewcontent/Dalheim_MMS_2008_Eastern_temperate_NOAA.pdf

Beginning in the late 1980s, large groups of previously unidentified killer whales (Orcinus orca) were sighted off the west coast of Vancouver Island and in the Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia. Scientists working in this region produced two killer whale photo-identification catalogues that...