Looking for Migrating Gray Whales
The gray whale is a baleen whale that migrates between feeding and breeding grounds yearly. Most gray whales spend the summer months (June,
July, and August) in the Bering Sea area between Alaska and Russia. A
few even venture north into the Arctic Ocean. In the fall the majority
of the population migrates south, along the west coast of Canada and the
United States, ending up in the quiet lagoons of Baja California during
the winter months (January, February, and March). At full size the gray whale is about 35 to 50 feet in length and
weighs 20-40 tons. It needs 65 tons of food annually to be healthy and
migrate. The small zoo planktonic crustaceans that make up the majority
of the gray whale's diet are called amphipods but the gray whale has
been known to consume other crustaceans like shrimp, mysids, and krill.
