Morro Bay Humpback Whale Sounds Recording
Video courtesy of Surveying Deep-sea Corals, Sponges, and Fish Habitat. Download larger version (mp4, 48.6 MB).

Drifting acoustic recorders were deployed for approximately one month during the EXPRESS survey. These recordings will be analyzed by researchers at NOAA Fisheries to better understand populations of whales and dolphins off the U.S. West Coast. This scrolling spectrogram provides an image of the sounds you are hearing: Humpback whales recorded off Morro Bay, California.

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