. Cetaceans of the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary. Cetacea; Mammals. Gray Whale Eschnchlus rcbuslus Lill)eborg 1861 The gray whale is probably the best known of the great whales of the northeastern Pacific and the species most frequently encountered in and near the CINMS, albeit seasonally. The vast majority of the population spends the winter in subtropical calving/breeding lagoons of mainland Me.\ico and the west coast of Baja California and summer m arctic and subarctic waters above Unimak Pass, principally the northern Bering and southern Chukchi seas. Migrations berweeen these
. Cetaceans of the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary. Cetacea; Mammals. Gray Whale Eschnchlus rcbuslus Lill)eborg 1861 The gray whale is probably the best known of the great whales of the northeastern Pacific and the species most frequently encountered in and near the CINMS, albeit seasonally. The vast majority of the population spends the winter in subtropical calving/breeding lagoons of mainland Me.\ico and the west coast of Baja California and summer m arctic and subarctic waters above Unimak Pass, principally the northern Bering and southern Chukchi seas. Migrations berweeen these widely separated "grounds" occur, for the most part, at predict- able times and along well defined routes. Although there are a tew early migrants and stragglers, the vast majority of southbound migrating gray whales leave the Bering Sea between mid-November and mid-December in components some- what segregated by age-sex class. The southbound movement along the Pacific coast ot North America spans the months November through January or early February. Some whales do not complete the south- hound migrations to southern lagoons, electing instead to remain ott British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, or «^. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Leatherwood, Stephen; Stewart, Brent S; Folkens, Pieter A; Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary (Calif. ); United States. National Marine Fisheries Service. [Santa Barbara, Calif. ] : National Marine Sanctuary Program
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