February 17
February 16
Dr Steven Swartz reported (via Alisa Schulman-Janiger, the ACS Census Director) the following estimated numbers of gray whales during a 13 February 2024 count:
Our drone photo is thanks to @GabeBergerhouse! Gray whale mother and calf travelling past Southern California.
Researchers in Laguna San Ignacio (REBIVI*) reported the following estimated numbers of gray whales during their 7 February 2024 count:
Our drone photo is thanks to @GabeBergerhouse! Gray whale mother and calf travelling past Southern California.
* REBIVI: Staff from Biosphere Reserve of El Vizcaino which contains Laguna San Ignacio in a protected region of Mexico.
Researchers in Laguna San Ignacio (REBIVI*) reported the following estimated numbers of gray whales during their 2 February 2024 count:
Our drone photo is thanks to @GabeBergerhouse! Gray whale mother and calf travelling past Southern California.
* REBIVI: Staff from Biosphere Reserve of El Vizcaino which contains Laguna San Ignacio in a protected region of Mexico.
Researchers in Laguna San Ignacio (UABCS) reported the following estimated numbers of gray whales during their 26January 2024 count:
Our drone photo is thanks to @GabeBergerhouse! Gray whale mother and calf travelling past Southern California.
Census workers in Point Fermin, near Los Angeles, CA, reported their highest gray whale count for 2024 on 18 January. They tracked 16 southbound gray whales, including 6 newborn calves on 18 January.
Census director, Alisa Schulman-Janiger, took this photo of one of the mother and calf pairs as they migrated past the census station. She reported that the calf lifted its head above the water a few times, so that the “fetal folds” showed. These are the skin folds from being in utero that can remain on a newborn even after birth.
Researchers in Laguna San Ignacio (REBIVI) reported the following estimated numbers of gray whales during their 18 January 2024 count:
September 6
Dear birders:
Captain Mike and Team Searcher
September 5
Dear birders:
The attached photos were taken on the 2022 tour by Alisa Schulman-Janiger, including the common dolphins.
Captain Mike and Team Searcher
Nazca booby
September 4
Dear birders:
We departed on our annual Labor Day 5-day trip to search the offshore and deep water areas of Southern California. Early reports from the 9-mile Bank and 30-mile Bank included these sightings: Black and Leach’s storm petrels, Northern fulmar, Pink-footed, Sooty and Black-vented shearwaters, Red and Red-necked phalaropes, Common, Elegant, Royal, and Caspian terns, Long-beaked and Short-beaked common dolphins, all in really nice weather.
The attached photos were taken on the 2022 tour by Alisa Schulman-Janiger, including the common dolphins.
Captain Mike and Team Searcher
Northern fulmar
