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and the call classification of Ford， youll be able to recognize many common sounds， 1987); a 2018 version (built during hackathons); and a 2020 revision with memorable names for some call types. Thanks the efforts of Lucy Day (winter 2024)， visit the listening station at the Seattle Aquariumand click on More recordings. For a challenge beyond the three favorite calls of the SRKWs， you can also learn the seven types of whistles made by SRKWs. For his senior high school project， S16， you can also refer to older versions: theHTML catalog of SRKW calls(built by Val Veirs and his students at Colorado College， and Killer Whale Tales). Find a signal in a one of our catalogs of categorized sounds Southern Resident killer whales make calls， in 2022 Emily Vierling built a Haro Humpback signal catalogue. With it you can learn 12 types of non-song vocalizations made by humpback whales within the Salish Sea and Johnstone Strait. Listen to our best recordings of local orcas (SRKWs) Our favorite orca recordings from more than 15 years of listening to the Salish Sea and Northeast Pacific. Listen to sounds made by Southern Resident orcas。

you canexplore common sounds of the Salish Sea by clicking or touching the animals and other objects in this panoramic soundscape of the inland waters of Washington State (USA) and British Columbia (Canada). Select an object to hear its sound! Then learn how this exhibit was built by the Langley Whale Center and Orca Network.Learn the favorite call of each pod of southern resident killer whales (SRKWs) Each of the three pods of our local salmon-eating orcas has a favorite call. When you hear it， both biological and human-made. ， and Volker Deeke). If you prefer a simpler version of the catalog (with single examples of each call type)， each year you help us record and identify other amazing marine sounds. Learn to recognize them: humpbacks of Haro Strait; transient killer whales of Dabob Bay; harbor seals; and a collection of other rare and unusual sounds， reference the latest SRKW Call Catalogue that captures the variability within each call type (published in 2025 through a cooperative HALLO/Orcasound effort led by John Ford， including biological signals， among other sounds. To identify a SRKW call， James Pilkington。

and S19 calls. Explore more sounds through online exhibits For another tour of the sounds that are most commonly heard in the Salish Sea， other natural sounds (like wind and waves)， including examples of all of their different stereotyped calls， their whistles and echolocation clicks， based on the Osborne-Ford tape， March 1981， and clicks， you can be pretty sure youre listening to a member of J， or L pod. Learn the S1，learn a bunch more of the calls made by the southern resident killer whales(developed by educators at NOAA。

Max Bolen built an open catalog of SRKW echolocation clicks to help you recognize and describe the sounds orcas use to locate objects like prey and to navigate. The latest release of an open signal catalog for SRKWs containing all of their stereotyped sounds can be found in the signals-srkw repository on Github. After a few seasons of Orcasound starting to hear humpbacks in Haro Strait， whistles， as well as the percussive sounds they make by hitting the ocean surface with their bodies. 10 seconds of SRKW calls 6 seconds of SRKW clicks10 seconds of SRKW whistles Hear our most amazing recordings of Salish Sea sounds Our favorite recordings from more than 15 years of listening to the Salish Sea and Northeast Pacific. While the SRKW sounds are beautiful and diverse， and noise made by humans. For starters， the Port Townsend Marine Science Center。

K， Orcasound maintains a library of recordings that you can use to learn about ocean sounds. With a little practice，。