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Laguna Ojo de Liebre, Mexico.Rectangle at lower right is evaporation pond for salt plant. Gray whale (Eschrichtius robustus) at Laguna Ojo de Liebre. Ojo de Liebre Lagoon (also known as Scammon's Lagoon [2]), translated into English as "hare eye lagoon", is a coastal lagoon located in Mulegé Municipality near the town of Guerrero Negro in the northwestern Baja California Sur state of Mexico.
We all know gray whales are huge - they can grow up to 49 feet long and weigh more than 90,000 pounds - and the length of the baleen seen in this video was probably around 18 inches long.
San Ignacio Lagoon (Laguna San Ignacio) is a lagoon located in Mulegé Municipality of the Mexican state of Baja California Sur, 59 kilometers (37 mi) from San Ignacio, Mexico, and Highway 1. It is one of the winter sanctuaries of the eastern Pacific gray whale ( Eschrichtius robustus ).
Guerrero Negro is near a lagoon frequented by Grey whales. The town is on Federal Highway 1. The town has a celebration each year to hail the annual arrival of the gray whales that calve in the lagoons of Baja California Sur (BCS). This festival occurs during the first half of February.
The gray whale population experienced an unusual mortality event from 2019 to 2023, which scientists believe was caused by a decrease in available prey in the northern Arctic seas, resulting in a ...
A gray whale surfaces with open eyes in Laguna San Ignacio, Baja California, where the species goes to calve and nurse its young. (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times) The story of the gray whales ...
"Man of War Cove", Magdalena Bay, March 1908. As early as 1837 American whaleships visited the bay to cooper their oil and hunt sperm whales outside the bay. Between 1845–46 and 1865–66, American, as well as a few French, Dutch, and Russian, whaleships hunted gray whales in the bay during their winter calving season.
A group of whale watchers got the thrill of their lives when a gray whale gave birth to a calf right next to their small boat on Jan. 2 at Dana Strands Beach in Dana Point, California.