Bottlenose (Monterey Bay) @488
North Pacific humpback. Catalogued since 1997.
Monterey Bay · North Pacific
58 Following 541 Followers148
Sightings
30
Years
0
Crossings
Sightings by year
1997 – 20261997
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2019
’26
Season Trends
DeepEffort across the feeding and breeding grounds, year over year.
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4 earnedFirst of the Year
100 Sightings
Multi-Decade Veteran
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Pods
58 followingRuffles (Monterey Bay) @132559 since May 20, 2025
Ascension (California) @130079 since May 11, 2025
Caraxes (Monterey Bay) @123234 since May 11, 2025
Akiko (Bling Pod and 2022 calf of Blingy) @84916 since Sep 7, 2023
Nacho aka Notch @421 since Sep 24, 2022
Recent activity
Santa Barbara Channel · Feb 2026–Mar 2026 Mar 13, 2026 · Santa Barbara Channel 104 m deepest· 3:50 longest Monterey Bay · Apr 2025–Oct 2025 Oct 17, 2025 · Monterey Bay 188 m deepest· 5:07 longest Monterey Bay · Mar 2024–Sep 2024 Sep 18, 2024 · Monterey Bay 118 m deepest· 4:32 longest Monterey Bay · Jul 2023–Sep 2023 Sep 25, 2023 · Monterey Bay 81 m deepest· 3:07 longest
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