Examples of killer whale (Orcinus orca) calls from passive acoustic monitoring in the Gulf of Alaska

• Main Authors: Rice, Ally, Myers, Hannah, Olsen, Daniel, Pilkington, James, Hildebrand, John, Baumann-Pickering, Simone
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2023
• Subjects: killer whales; ecotype; passive acoustic monitoring; Gulf of Alaska; Pacific; Pratt; Killer Whale; Kodiak; Orca; Orcinus orca; Alaska; Killer whale
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/7706395; https://doi.org/10.6076/D1VS3R

Three killer whale (Orcinus orca) ecotypes are found in the northeastern Pacific: residents, transients, and offshores. Each ecotype produces distinct, stereotypic pulsed calls that serve as acoustic indicators of presence. To investigate the spatial and temporal occurrence of each ecotype in the Gu...