Orcasound

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Map from salishsea.io?x=-13629512&...

Thanks to Orca Network and many other community scientists/tools for putting occurrence data on a shared, transboundary map!

J & K pod calling now on the MaST Center hydrophone! Listen live here -- live.orcasound.net/listen/mast-...

Thanks to Highline College for hosting this listening location!

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A map showing the travels of members of J, K, and L Pods in the central Salish Sea on December 29, 2025

Our final orca encounter of 2025 was an acoustic one on the evening of 12/29, as we heard Southern Resident calls for over 2 hours on the North San Juan Channel hydrophone!

You can listen to the recording of this bout here courtesy of @orcasound.bsky.social:

tinyurl.com/dec29bout

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Extended live concert in North San Juan Channel from J & K pods. They sounded VERY excited tonight. Vocalizations began ~8pm and continued for nearly 2 hours!

live.orcasound.net/bouts/bout_0...

Thanks to @orcabehaviorinstitute.org for hosting this listening location!

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Haro humpbacks calling NOW on both Andrews Bay & Orcasound Lab --

live.orcasound.net/listen/andre...
live.orcasound.net/listen/orcas...

If you miss the live event, check these links for recordings:
live.orcasound.net/reports

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04:15-04:45 12/5 faint Bigg's bout on the Orcasound Lab hydrophone in Haro Strait. Preliminary duration is available for replay/review here --

live.orcasound.net/bouts/bout_0...

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11/22 21:35 About 9 hours after deploying a new binaural hydrophone array in Andrews Bay (1 km south of Orcasound Lab), we recorded Bigg's killer whales! Listen to their faint calls here -- live.orcasound.net/bouts/bout_0...

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Thanks to the A-team for this new listening station.

11/15 Mon 17:43 Short humpback bout (~4 minutes long)!
live.orcasound.net/bouts/bout_0...

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15:00 Bigg’s calls on the Sunset Bay hydrophones!

live.orcasound.net/bouts/bout_0...

Thanks to Tamara for the heads up and @orcaconservancy.bsky.social for maintaining!

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Another phenomenal #humpback concert last night (1:30-1:45). Thanks to a careful night-owl listener who tagged the live stream, we have another great recording (and test of the DAS4orcas fiber optic cable). Here's what it sounded like:

live.orcasound.net/bouts/bout_0...

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Gratitude to the Port Townsend Marine Science Center and their A-team volunteers led by Eric McRae who keep the hydrophone going.

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Thanks to listener Cindi who caught the first faint calls around 8:02, you can listen live to what sounds like J, K, and L pods returning together to Puget Sound tonight!

live.orcasound.net/listen/port-...

Amazing Haro humpback bout early this morning (11/9, 3:30-3:51 Pacific)! Probably the best validation opportunity yet for the DAS4orcas (and humpbacks!) project with @uwbothell.bsky.social !

Try minute 3:42 for the most intense signals.

live.orcasound.net/bouts/bout_0...

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J pod calls on the Sunset Bay hydrophone! Listen live here -- live.orcasound.net/listen/sunse...

And consider how the noise from the Edmonds-Kingston ferry might be affecting their ability to seek fall chum salmon at the moment!

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14:00 Mon 11/3: members of J, K, & L pod are calling on the Port Townsend hydrophone! Don't miss this live "concert" from our endangered orcas.

live.orcasound.net/listen/port-...

Thanks to the Port Townsend Marine Science Center for hosting this listening location for more than 2 decades!

J, K, and L pod members calling this evening at Sunset Bay. Tune in now to hear an amazing variety of calls, lots of echolocation, and some intermittent whistles!

live.orcasound.net/listen/sunse...

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Between ship noise, a listener detected humpback non-song vocalization around 9pm this evening (10/25). This is a first for Orcasound Lab in Haro Strait this fall! (& will provide valuable test data for the DAS4oras project...)

live.orcasound.net/bouts/bout_0...

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J pod heard NB in Haro Strait 7:30-8 this morning! Thanks to @orcabehaviorinstitute.org for the heads up & direction context!

Here's the bout with faint S04s -- live.orcasound.net/bouts/bout_0...

Strongest signals ~7:50 will provide 1st test of the DAS4orcas fiberoptic cable...

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9/23/25 23:01-23:31 SRKW calls, clicks, and faint whistles heard by live-listeners on the Orcasound Lab hydrophone in Haro Strait between noise from passing chemical & oil tankers and their tugs. Replay, share, & download the 30-minute bout here -- live.orcasound.net/bouts/bout_0...

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Enjoy replaying & sharing this bout using this new visualization, including a spectrogram! Also, if you like Python, you can now select the EXPORT BOUT button and get a JSON file with raw data pointers and a Python script that will access the open S3 buckets and convert to WAV or MP4.

J pod signals heard for nearly 3 hours last night (9/21/25) from 19:25-22:21, including lots of calls and echolocation clicks. Some of the clearest calls (and lowest vessel noise levels) happened around 20:00.

live.orcasound.net/bouts/bout_0...

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What is going on?!

Seems like west towards San Juan Island (thanks recent to WSSJI observations)!

Maybe we'll get to listen for them tonight in Haro?! salishsea.io?x=-13678949&...

J pod called on the Orcasound Lab hydrophones for ~1.25 hr this eve as they traveled north in Haro Strait. Thanks to listeners for detecting their calls, whistles, and clicks. Here's the whole bout, but listen at 6pm for really cool vocalizations!

live.orcasound.net/bouts/bout_0...

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00:05 Lots of S04 calls, whistles, and echolocation. It sounds like J pod is BACK after a long summer hiatus!

Listen live here -- live.orcasound.net/listen/orcas...

#orcas #srkw #whalesky #killerwhales #bioacoustics
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The OrcaHello system detected Bigg's calls last night around 01:50 in Haro Strait. Here's the recording from the Orcasound Lab hydrophones -- aifororcas.azurewebsites.net/detections/d...

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