Guardian @7553
Guardian is known from the Marine Education and Research Society Humpback Whale Catalog -- see photo, a known female. She has been documented in the waters off of North East Vancouver Island since 2011 by MERS. Her nickname is due to the original look of her tail - she had a yellow outline of an angel in the middle of her tail. Thank you Marieke Knierim for this information. Mother of 2023 calf of Guardian.
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Sightings
15
Years
2
Crossings
Last 12 months 11 sightings
- N 2025-11: 1 sighting
- D 2025-12: 0 sightings
- J 2026-01: 0 sightings
- F 2026-02: 0 sightings
- M 2026-03: 0 sightings
- A 2026-04: 0 sightings
- M 2026-05: 1 sighting
- J 2026-06: 1 sighting
- J 2026-07: 1 sighting
- A 2026-08: 5 sightings
- S 2026-09: 2 sightings
- O 2026-10: 0 sightings
Recent activity
View all 12 Johnstone Strait & Broughton · May – Sep 2026 May 24 – Sep 19, 2026 · Johnstone Strait & Broughton · 10
sightings Deepest dive— Longest dive— Johnstone Strait & Broughton · Nov 2025 Nov 23, 2025 · Johnstone Strait & Broughton · 1
sighting Deepest dive— Longest dive— Johnstone Strait & Broughton · Jul – Aug 2025 Jul 23 – Aug 21, 2025 · Johnstone Strait & Broughton · 4
sightings Deepest dive— Longest dive— Salish Sea · Jul – Sep 2024 Jul 6 – Sep 19, 2024 · Salish Sea · 5
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