A sad reminder to always #BeWhaleWise

It's the return of Minke May! Minke ("minky") whales sadly don't get as much attention and other whales, but they deserve love all the same. Their scientific name, Balaenoptera acutorostrata, translates to "winged whale with sharp snout". 📷: Clint William, @eaglewingtours.bsky.social

An important call to action from Regina from Whale and Dolphin Conversation- visit their website before June 2 to add your voice. Photo: Clearwater Marine Aquarium Research Institute, taken under NOAA permit #26919. Funded by Georgia DNR and NOAA Fisheries. #WhaleTales #WhaleTalesPodcast

Happy Star Wars Day! May the fourth be with everyone out whale watching today! 🌑🐳 #WhaleTales #MayTheFourth

Crazy Interaction with Incredibly Social Bigg's (Transient) Killer Whales. Read the full story here: buff.ly/2Krsi35 Photo by Gary⁠ This is an encounter from 2016 #WhaleTales #orca

Critically Endangered North Atlantic Right Whale Baby Boom Brings 23 Calves share.google/He0nhPsHlBNL...

A Beautiful Blue Whale. Read the full story here: buff.ly/i0r00H4 Photo by Loriannah This is an encounter from 2019 #WhaleTales #BlueWhales

The logbooks and diaries of whalers were used to reconstruct the movements of whaling ships into the heart of the Arctic Ocean in pursuit of bowhead whales. The few areas whalers couldn’t previously access are now hotspots of bowhead recovery. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/GhXA50YTkYL

Seven-year-old Sol (T046B6) celebrates as she and her family finish off a sea lion hunt in Saanich Inlet. #Wild4Whales

T065A's and T065B's Hunt a Steller Sea Lion. Read the full story here: buff.ly/4jN9PWy Photo by Gary⁠ This is an encounter from 2015 #WhaleTales #KillerWhale #biggs

It's #FunFactFriday! Did you know that False Killer Whale are a smaller relative of the much more familiar Killer Whale species? Even though they do not look especially similar from the outside, their skeletal structures are a different story.

Here's a genome from the Vertebrate Genomes Project (vertebrategenomespro...): a chromosome-level assembly for the false killer whale (Pseudorca crassidens)! 🐋 This resource advances cetacean research and conservation. Photo: Stefan Thiesen Buntrabe 1/2

Our commercial #bowhead #whaling paper has now also been featured in National Geographic! www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...

Do you know the difference between a dolphin and a porpoise? They’re both highly intelligent; they use echolocation to find food, communicate, and navigate; they come to the surface to breathe. They even look pretty similar. But they are not the same.

There's a Spider-Man balloon in this pic, but the *real* superheroes are crew members Avery & Jordan of Puget Sound Express who plucked it out of the Salish Sea earlier today. Balloons are by far the most common type of garbage we remove from local waters. 🚫🎈 📷: Lily Aey, @pugetsoundexpress.com

Sperm whales have the largest brains of any animal on Earth. Their heads can make up to a third of their body length and contain a spermaceti organ that helps them navigate and hunt using echolocation.

Incredible Blue Whale Encounter. Read the full story here: buff.ly/3TOglJn Photo by Whale Watch Western Australia This is an encounter from 2017 #WhaleTales #BlueWhales

A short video from our two encounters with Orcas here in Shetland last week. 🖤🤍 #MarineLife #MarineMammals #CetaceansUK #UKWildlife

At only a few weeks old, little Nimbus (T049A7) is looking healthy and spunky. Here he or she is with big brother Noah (T049A1) who often travels on his own but has recently been spending some time with mom and the fam! #Wild4Whales

While Jason puts together a new video from our last weekend, we wanted to share this short clip that highlights some cool moments with T46B8, the newest member of the T46Bs matriline. 🎥 This video was filmed by Jason during our time in Saanich Inlet, at the southern end of Vancouver Island!

Frosty and His Crew. Read the full story here: buff.ly/3UG0VHd Video by Mauricio This is an encounter from 2024 #WhaleTales

This month on the Whale Tales Podcast we welcomed Regina Asmutis-Silvia, the Executive Director and Senior Biologist of the Whale and Dolphin Conservation - North America.

🧘 Take a moment… Close your eyes and listen to the sound of the sea 🌊🎧 #SeaSounds #MindfulMoments

If you haven't checked this new paper out yet be sure to! Especially if you listened to our episode of the Whale Tales Podcast with @smilodontology.bsky.social last summer - he talked about this research there and it is SO COOL!

A Breaching Grey Whale. Read the full story here: buff.ly/2Y7FO4X Photo by Marcie Callewaert This is an encounter from 2015 #WhaleTales #GreyWhales

A few pictures from yesterday’s Deception Pass Bridge encounter. #killerwhales #orca #Biggs #wildlifephotography #PNW

Welcome to Whistle 101, where the classroom is underwater, and all of your peers are dolphins! In a recent episode of @scifri.bsky.social, WHOI marine bioacoustician Laela Sayigh explains how dolphins use signature sounds to introduce themselves. Learn more: go.whoi.edu/scifri-dolphins

T-Party in Deception Pass! Yesterday, a large group of Bigg's (mammal-eating) killer whales frolicked for nearly six hours in the swift current underneath Washington's Deception Pass Bridge. What a treat for whale watchers on both land and sea! 📷: Ken Rea, Spirit of Orca

#Vaquita porpoise environmental DNA (eDNA) project: 🧬 We’re getting ready 🌊🐬 Follow on Instagram ⬇️

Bigg’s (Transient) Killer Whales at the Beginning of the Season. Read the full story here: buff.ly/VrBnPUE Photo by Janine Harles This is an encounter from 2017 #WhaleTales #Orca

🐋🐋🐋 MASSIVE WHALE PAPER ALERT!!! 🐋🐋🐋 Our new paper "Historic logbooks reveal spatial footprints of commercial whaling" has just been published in @pnas.org! Come see how we use centuries-old #logbooks to understand population recovery patterns a century after Arctic #whaling. Details below 👇 1/🐋

Sublime pass at Deception Pass Bridge. T19s, T86A3s, T71Bs, T 124As with A4s, T49A1 #orcas #killerwhales #PNW #deceptionpassbridge #Whidbey

Breaches and Flick Feeding. Read the full story here: buff.ly/Vfro5uf Photo by Marcie This is an encounter from 2026 #WhaleTales #Orca

Today is #WorldNoiseDay, so could you tell the difference between an orca and a pilot whale just by sound? 🐋 From dolphin clicks to the songs of the humpback whales, ocean soundscapes are incredible.

A Close Up Right Whale Encounter. Read the full story here: buff.ly/QkyrmG1 This is an encounter from 2025 #WhaleTales #RightWhale

The T011A "Rainy" Show. Read the full story here: buff.ly/2FbU7s2 Photo by Ashley This is an encounter from 2017 #WhaleTales #orca

I Dreamed a Whale Alan Syliboy ~ Mi'kmaq n.d.

Accurate representation of what happened when we tried to get some whales on the #WhaleTalesPodcast 😂 ✏️ Nathan W. Pyle #WhaleTales

Celebrate the seventh anniversary of the #WhaleTalesPodcast by rating and reviewing us on Apple, Spotify, Podchaser or wherever you get your podcasts! Don't forget to tell your cetacean loving friends too! 😉 💙🎧🐳🐋🐬 #WhaleTales #WhalePodcast

Playful and Restful Orcas. Read the full story here: buff.ly/uvUH7pb Photo by Judith⁠ This is an encounter from 2022 #WhaleTales #orca

Whale Tales Watches is back this month and we are (unfortunately) talking about Finding Dory. If you like this movie you might want to give this ep a miss because we...did not. Join us at the $10/month level if you want to listen and hear all our grievances! 😆 buff.ly/KiuNVeD #WhaleTales

Today marks the seventh year anniversary since we launched the #WhaleTalesPodcast! We continue to be overwhelmed and amazed by the support and feedback we have gotten from you in the last seven years. Thank you so much for listening!!! 💙🎧🐳🐋🐬⠀ #WhaleTales #WhalePodcast

Sei you later! A new @wcs.org study utilized WHOI technology to show endangered sei whales consistently visit the waters of the New York Bight, home to one of the busiest ports in the United States. Dive in with @oceanographicmag.bsky.social: go.whoi.edu/sei-omag 📸 NEFSC, MMPA permit 17355-00

Socializing Grey Whales. Read the full story here: buff.ly/yCpj1zU Photo by Marcie This is an encounter from 2025 #WhaleTales #GreyWhales

Amazing Encounter with the T124A2's and T087. Read the full story here: buff.ly/ppTxCJl Photo by Gary This is an encounter from 2020 #WhaleTales #KillerWhale

Happy Earth Day! 🌎🌍🌏 To quote the late Dr. Jane Goodall, "What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make." PWWA members work hard to make a *positive* difference in the world, and we hope you'll do the same! 📷: Sara Jenkins, Wild Whales Vancouver

Incredible Encounter with California Killer Whales. Read the full story here: buff.ly/TvjfS43 Photo by Patrick This is an encounter from 2018 #WhaleTales #KillerWhale

T063 Chainsaw Returns. Read the full story here: buff.ly/2RhdaSu Photo by Sooke Coastal Explorations This is an encounter from 2017 #WhaleTales #orca

AI tool listens for endangered orcas in real time to reduce human disturbance news.mongabay.com/2026/04/ai-t... 🦑🌎🧪

Happy Earth Day