Southern resident orcas
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The southern resident orcas, also known as the southern resident killer whales, are the smallest of four communities of the exclusively fish-eating ecotype of orca in the northeast Pacific Ocean. The
The research vessel Noctiluca of the Northwest Fisheries Science Center in close proximity to an orca
Younger and older Southern Resident orcas hunting salmon prey as a group; sometimes they share the fish
J50 Scarlet at nine months with mother J16 Slick
L pod male and salmon prey in Haro Strait, south of Lime Kiln Point State Park
The Yukon Harbor orca capture operation was the first planned, deliberate trapping of a large group of orcas. 15 southern resident orcas were trapped by Ted Griffin and his Seattle Public Aquarium par
Western shores of Puget Sound viewed from West Seattle
A young adult male of the Southern Resident community (ID L79 'Skana') in the San Juan Islands