Tagged whales confirm the Gulf of California as a wintering ground

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1. Story
2. Five blue whales tagged in 1999 spend the winter in the Gulf of California, establishing it as a wintering ground for the eastern North Pacific population rather than a place they merely pass. Photo-identification and genetic work later show that females in different reproductive states, including nursing mothers with calves, return to the gulf, and that mothers and calves prefer the coastal waters around Loreto.
3. Knowledge
4. Eastern North Pacific Blue Whale Migration
5. Gulf of California
6. Bahia de Loreto National Park
7. Satellite Telemetry Tagging of Large Whales
8. Tagged whales confirm the Gulf of California as a wintering ground
9. Connections
10. Gulf of California
11. Eastern North Pacific Blue Whale Migration
12. Satellite Telemetry Tagging of Large Whales
13. Bahia de Loreto National Park
14. Eastern North Pacific Blue Whale Migration
15. Bahia de Loreto National Park
16. Bahia de Loreto National Park is established
17. Tagged whales confirm the Gulf of California as a wintering ground
18. Satellite Telemetry Tagging of Large Whales
19. California Current System
20. Costa Rica Thermal Dome
21. Gulf of California
22. Satellite tagging of eastern North Pacific blue whales begins
23. Tagged whales confirm the Gulf of California as a wintering ground
24. Eastern North Pacific blue whales are estimated near carrying capacity
25. Eastern North Pacific Blue Whale Migration
26. Satellite tagging of eastern North Pacific blue whales begins
27. Tagged whales confirm the Gulf of California as a wintering ground
28. Pygmy blue whale movements between Australia and Indonesia are published
29. The only published Antarctic blue whale satellite tracks are released as data
30. Gulf of California
31. Bahia de Loreto National Park is established
32. Tagged whales confirm the Gulf of California as a wintering ground
33. Evidence
34. Transmitters were attached to 171 blue whales off California and in the Gulf of California between 1993 and 2008; a related analysis used 159 Argos tags deployed mainly off California in late summer between 1993 and 2007, of which 92 tracks exceeded seven days. Tagged whales moved south in winter to Baja California, the Gulf of California and waters at and west of the Costa Rica Dome; five whales tagged in 1999 wintered in the Gulf of California, identifying it as a wintering ground. V55 verification basis: retrieved in search summary attributed to these sources; neither the institute page nor the preprint could be fetched.
35. The Gulf of California is a winter, calving and feeding area for northeastern Pacific blue whales that feed off California in summer; nursing mothers and calves show a particular preference for the coastal waters of Bahia de Loreto National Park, and females in different reproductive states return to the gulf. The park was established on 19 July 1996, covers 206,580.75 hectares of which about 88 percent is sea surface, and takes in the islands of Coronados, Del Carmen, Danzante, Montserrat and Santa Catalina. V55 verification basis: retrieved in search summary attributed to these sources; none was fetched.