ORCA WHALES | KILLER WHALES

Orca whale (Orcinus orca) underwater surfacing and just beginning to exhale.

Resting family group of resident killer whales (Orcinus orca) during sunset in Johnstone Strait off Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.

Resident Killer whale (Orcinus orca) spyhopping during sunset in Johnstone Strait, British Columbia, Canada.

Northern resident orca (fish eating killer whale), A86 Cutter, porpoising side by side with pacific white-sided dolphins in Queen Charlotte Strait, off Malcolm Island, Vancouver Island, First Nations Territory, British Columbia, Canada.

Northern resident killer whales (Orcinus orca) A24's and A36's in a tight resting line around Donegal Head, west of Blackfish Sound off Vancouver Island, First Nations Territory, British Columbia, Canada.

Northern resident killeer whale breaching in front of Swanson Island off Northern Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.

A fmily pod of northern resident killer whales traveling in Johnstone Strait in early evening off Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.

Surfing Orca whale, Killer whale

Transient killer whales (orca, Orcinus orca, T30's & T137's) after killing a sea lion off Malcolm Island near Donegal Head, British Columbia, Canada.

Northern resident killer whale pod, one breaching, in Johnstone Strait, First Nations Territory, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.

A54, A106, A118, A86,A75, northern resident killer whales, Orcinus orca, Johnstone Strait, First Nations Territory, British Columbia, Canada.

Transient killer whales (orca, Orcinus orca, T30's & T137's) after killing a sea lion off Malcolm Island near Donegal Head, British Columbia, Canada.

Northern resident killer whale group in Johnstone Strait, British Columbia, Canada

Resident killer whale spy hopping in Johnstone Strait, British Columbia, Canada

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Northern resident killer whale (orcinus orca) breaching near Pearse Islands off Telegraph Cove, Vancouver Island, First Nations Territory, British Columbia, Canada

Group of resident killer whales (Orcinus orca) in Johnstone Strait off Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.

Killer whale close up, Johnstone Strait, British Columbia, Canada

Killer whale breaching off Donegal Head of Malcolm Island

Killer whale breaching off Donegal Head of Malcolm Island, British Columbia, Canada.

Northern resident killer whale baby (Orcinus orca) spy-hopping near Malcolm Island in Queen Charlotte Strait, Great Bear Rainforest coast, British Columbia, Canada.

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Orca Whale male in Waynton Pass during sunset, Killer Whales off Northern Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada, Orcas at sunset

Male northern resident killer whalein Johnstone Strait in front of Robson Bight Ecological Reserve during sunset, British Columbia, Canada