SF News Five More Dead Gray Whales Bring Bay Area Death Toll to 14 We've been seeing another spike in gray whale mortality this year around the Bay Area that isn't well explained, but an unusual number of gray whales have been entering and hanging out in SF Bay this spring.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Gray Whale Population Appears to Be Rebounding AsiaSF is staying open one more month after "overwhelming" community support; Safeway stores in the Bay Area continue to overcharge for goods; and the West Coast's gray whale population appears to be rebounding after that mass die-off five years ago.
SF News That Gray Whale Who Spent a Record Two Months In San Francisco Bay Has Died It was not a good sign that a gray whale had been sticking in the waters of the SF Bay since February, and we now know he’d been hit by ships twice, and has been found dead at the Point Reyes National Seashore.
SF News Possibly Sickly Gray Whale Has Been In San Francisco Bay For Two Months Whale-watching season has begun, and much as in previous years, a few whales have already been sneaking into San Francisco Bay, likely to feast on anchovies. But one whale who's been hanging out in the Bay since February looks possibly unhealthy.
SF News First Gray Whale Sighting of 2023 In SF Bay Has Happened, More Whales Apparently Out There Whale watching season is here a little early in 2023, as the Marine Mammal Center spotted this whale tail February 9, and SF Bay Ferry riders say they’ve seen a few more since.
SF News Rare Fin Whale Washes Up at Fort Funston — the Fifth Dead Whale Recorded Around Bay Area in Less Than a Month There are just an estimated 3,200 fin whales in the waters off of California, Oregon, and Washington. Friday, one of them was found lifeless along the beach at Fort Funston — having likely died from a boat strike.
SF News [Update] Four Whales Turn Up Dead In Bay Area In a Week, One Killed By Ship Strike Another gray whale has died in the Bay Area, the fourth in just eight days, and it washed ashore on Muir Beach in Marin County on Thursday morning. This spate of gray whale deaths is reminding biologists of 2019.
SF News Looks Like No One Knows Exactly How That Gray Whale at Crissy Field Died (Yet) One of the world’s largest living animals washed up ashore at Crissy Field this past Wednesday, captivating passersby — and sparking up curiosity about how the marine mammal died. Now four days and one necropsy later, it's still unclear as to how the whale perished.
SF News Dead Gray Whale Washes Up at Crissy Field, Gets Towed to Angel Island for Necropsy It's whale season again, both in the Bay and along the NorCal coast, and unfortunately that also means it's dead whale season — and a deceased gray whale washed ashore at Crissy Field on Wednesday morning.
Arts & Entertainment Over 200 Gray Whales Passed By Point Reyes Over the Weekend The annual northern migration of gray whales is happening in significant numbers off the Northern California coast, and park rangers at the Point Reyes National Seashore counted 209 sightings between Friday and Sunday.
SF News It's Officially Whale-Spotting Season In San Francisco Bay Gray whales, on their annual migratory path along the Pacific coast to their summer feeding grounds in Alaska, have been spotted recently entering San Francisco Bay — and a pair of them also washed up dead last week.
Arts & Entertainment Gallery: Whale-On-Whale Gang Violence Happening Off The Coast Of Monterey In the middle of whale watching season, local nature photographer David Cruz was lucky enough to snap these photos of gray, humpback and killer whales while aboard an excursion off the coast of
SF News Gray Whale Gets Lost, Hangs Out With Calf Near Crissy Field A mother whale and her calf, headed back North to Alaska after spending what we can only imagine was a lovely winter in Baja, got lost in the San Francisco Bay this week.
