Interactive Orca Resources

Listen for orcas at Orcasound.

Sounds picked up by hydrophones around the Salish Sea can be reported to researchers. Orcas make sounds like:

• calls:
• clicks:
• whistles:

Articles About Orcas

National Resources Defense Council: To Save Orcas, First Save Salmon

Tulalip News: Protecting our Salish Sea, the salmon and the southern resident orcas

Podcasts About Orcas

Skaana: Lummi Elder Squil-le-he-le on the Documentary Resident Orca and Her Relatives Beneath the Waves

Content Warning: violence against animals described between 9:00 and 12:00 in recounting the round-up of orcas at Penn Cove on August 8, 1970.
This episode covers some interesting topics about human relationships with orcas, including the integration of ceremony and using technology to send messages to orca relatives.

Nerdy About Nature: The Majesty of Killer Whales with Fred, The Orca Man