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18 mar 2019 · K-pod orcas are the smallest of three orca pods belonging to the endangered Southern Resident Killer Whale population. K-pod is often the last pod to show up in the Salish Sea during the spring and summer months.
13 lip 2018 · K-Pod is known for their high-pitched, kitten-like discrete calls, S16 and S17, which are often made in tandem. S36 is another unique call that is periodically made by all three pods, but is most often heard from Ks.
The southern resident orcas, also known as the southern resident killer whales (SRKW), are the smallest of four communities of the exclusively fish-eating ecotype of orca in the northeast Pacific Ocean.
L and K pods are known to travel to the northern coast of California in the winter months and J pod normally stays closer to the Salish Sea. The SRKW will travel as far south as Monterey Bay, California and north towards Haida Gwaii but have also been seen as far north as Alaska.
The Southern Resident killer whales are a genetically and culturally distinct population of orcas within the Pacific Northwest and consist of three separate pods: J, K, and L Pods. Like other ecotypes of orcas, the Southern Residents are matriarchal, which means females are the leaders.
1 mar 2023 · J Pod tends to stick around the Salish Sea in winter while K Pod and L Pod travel to Northern California. Traditionally the summer months have seen them thriving in Puget Sound, with all three pods meeting in a celebratory superpod to reconnect and feast on Chinook salmon.
The southern resident killer whales (SRKWs) are fish-eating orcas that frequent the Salish Sea and are heard live on the Orcasound hydrophones every few days during the summer months. They emit a wonderfully diverse repertoire of calls — almost 40 distinct signals within the hearing range of humans — but most of us would be hard-pressed to ...
