Burned

First Sighted: 2015

Sex: Female

Buttons

Buttons is a chameleon, as he has been misidentified on three separate occasions!

First Sighted: 2012

Sex: Male

Clouds

Clouds, and her son Cheetah, are a mom-calf pair that we have documented every year of our study since Cheetah’s birth in 2016!

First Sighted: 1995

Sex: Female

Equal

Equal's unfortunate encounter with a boat propeller has provided us a fascinating insight into a gray whale's stress response!

First Sighted: 2015

Sex: Male

Heart

AKA: Ginger

First Sighted: 2010

Sex: Female

Lunita

AKA: Creamsicle

First Sighted: 2022

Sex: Unknown

Moby Dick

Moby Dick gets her name because she has a whiter pigmentation than most other gray whales, much like the famous white sperm whale in Moby Dick.

First Sighted: 2002

Sex: Female

Orange Knuckles

Orange Knuckles is a mature male gray whale who likes the ladies!

AKA: Ridgeback

First Sighted: 1999

Sex: Male

Pacman

Pacman was born in 2014 to Scarlett and has since been learning how to feed in Oregon’s complex coastal waters.

First Sighted: 2014

Sex: Female

Roller Skate

Roller Skate is a tough lady as she survived a traumatic entanglement around her fluke!

First Sighted: 2015

Sex: Female

Scarlett

Scarlett is perhaps the most iconic and well-known gray whale along our coast!

AKA: Scarback

First Sighted: 1996

Sex: Female

Sole

Solé seems to be a true Oregonian – a home body who knows what she likes and sticks with it!

AKA: Bullseye

First Sighted: 1999

Sex: Female

Zorro

We used to see Zorro regularly, but not lately…Why has he not been around?

First Sighted: 2014

Sex: Male