Whale, Gray

Name: Whale, Gray
Classification:
Place first seen: Limantour Beach, Pt. Reyes, California, USA
Date spotted: April 2014
Description:

Jan, Feb: Heading South
March, Apr: Heading north

One of the longest annual migrations of any mammal, traveling a total of 15,000 to 21,000 kms every year. They migrate south in the fall from their Arctic feeding grounds in the Bering, Beaufort, and Chukchi Seas west and north of Alaska down the Pacific coast as far as Baja California, Mexico, to spend the winter in their breeding and calving grounds in warm water lagoons and in the Southern California Bight.

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