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Recovering gray whales could help recovery of declining marine birds
SeaDoc-funded research suggests that the recovering gray whale population might be important for providing food for marine birds that are in decline. Gray whales, listed as sensitive species by Washington State and threatened by British Columbia, make an annual 10,000 mile migration between calving grounds in Baja California and summer feeding grounds in the Arctic. Every year some of them break-off their northern migration to come into shallow waters of Puget Sound to feed for extended periods.