242B (2004) - Rubbing Beach

There were 82 discrete northern resident calls identified for recording 242B (August 5, 2004, 20:18 - 21:05), whales were rubbing on pebbles at 20:29. The majority of calls were N4 (40%), N1 (31%), and N5 (14%). Other calls identifed were N2 (5%), N3 (2%), N7 (1%), N9 (6%), and N16 (1%).

Quiet Recordings (2004)

Tapes 230A to 250B recorded by Orcalab in 2004 were analyzed for relatively quiet and loud ambient sound levels for computation by UVIC's Orchive program. This will allow researchers to organize and sample the large database of information for future studies.

243A (2004) - Rubbing Beach

Rubbing actively at the Robson Bight Main beach by the northern resident killer whales was heard at the beginning of the tape (21:07). A total of 27 calls were idnetified with the N4 call type heard with the most frequency (44%) throughout the recording; N2 (7%), N5 (15%), N9 (15%), and N25 (19%).

Acoustic Analysis (2004)

Starting analysis of over 2500 annotations, editing previous posts with 'Call Types' below the Link.

246B (2004)

Year - 2004
Tape - 246B
Date - Friday, Aug06
Time - 06:39
Annotations - 174
Whales - A30,A12,A36,A11,A35,A73,A24,A4 2,A43,A25,I15
Comments - Faint calls at beginning, boat noise increases. A30, A12, A36, and I15s, travel east in Johnston Strait, A1 and A5 calls. Echolocation and good calls at 06:57.
Link - http://orchive.cs.uvic.ca/recordings/show/11929