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  2. Salish Sea orcas - Wikipedia

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    The primary diet of transient orcas includes harbor seals, Steller sea lions, harbor porpoises, Dall's porpoises, Pacific white-sided dolphins, and Minke whales. Among these, the harbor seal is the most common prey; one survey estimated that more than half of the diet of transients in the Salish Sea region consists of harbor seals. [ 16 ]

  3. Orca types and populations - Wikipedia

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    Transient or Bigg's: The diets of these orcas consist almost exclusively of marine mammals. [ 6 ] [ 8 ] They live in the same areas as residents, but the two avoid each other. [ 15 ] [ 16 ] [ 17 ] Transients generally travel in small groups, usually of two to six animals, but sometimes on rare occasions pods merge into groups of 200.

  4. Marine mammals of the Salish Sea - Wikipedia

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    An orca breaching in Hood Canal. The marine mammals of the Salish Sea are numerous and diverse, both in taxonomy and morphology. A total of six species of pinnipeds, eight species of baleen whales, seventeen species of toothed whales, and one mustelid (the sea otter) inhabiting the local waters of the Salish Sea and the outer coastal waters over the continental shelf off Washington and British ...

  5. Transient whales, whose Salish Sea visits are increasing ...

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    Bigg's killer whales were the most frequently documented last year, and many finding food sources in the Hood Canal. Transient whales, whose Salish Sea visits are increasing, spending time in Hood ...

  6. Transient orcas also visit coastlines, but they spend some of their time in deeper waters in the northern Pacific, feeding on pinnipeds and cetaceans. Offshore orcas feed on sharks and larger fish ...

  7. 'Transient Killer Whales' Share a Meal Off the Coast of ... - AOL

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    A pair of orca whales were spotted sharing a meal along the Channel Islands off the coast of Southern California, video uploaded on June 27 shows.Drone footage captured by Evan Brodsky shows the ...