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"Big Mama" and her eighth calf have migrated back to PNW waters! They were recently spotted near San Juan Islands.
The first baby humpback whale of the season has been spotted swimming in the Salish Sea off Washington, photos show. Big Mama ...
The Pacific Whale Watch Association (PWWA) has announced the arrival of the first humpback whale calf of the 2025 season in ...
Big Mama was spotted with her latest calf in Haro Strait northeast of Sidney Island on Wednesday, followed by several more ...
SEATTLE — The first humpback calf of the whale watching season was spotted in the Salish Sea earlier this week. The baby, ...
“She was first seen off Victoria in 1997, and was one of the first humpbacks to return to the Salish Sea after the end of ...
Move over Moby Dick. Big Mama, the first humpback whale to have returned to the North Pacific's Salish Sea after decades of absence, is telling a new story about the global threat to whale ...
Erin Gless, executive director of the Pacific Whale Watch Association, joins Good Day Seattle to celebrate the first humpback whale calf of 2025. Famous whale 'Big Mama' has brought her eighth child ...
ALSO READ: Video captures ‘rarely seen’ mama whale and calf near North Carolina coast An examination, called a necropsy, was being conducted on the 31-foot (9-meter) whale on the beach to ...
A well-known humpback whale has returned to the waters of the Salish Sea, this time with a new calf in tow. The whale, identified as BCY0324, or “Big Mama,” got her namesake for being the mother of ...