Humpback Whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) Adult surfacing (note blow) Icy Strait, Southeast Alaska, USA. Pacific Ocean.

Humpback Whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) Aerial view of adult surfacing off Chichagof Island in Southeast Alaska, USA. Pacific Ocean.

Humpback Whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) fluke-up dive Chatham Strait, Southeast Alaska, USA

Humpback Whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) cooperatively bubble-net feeding in Chatham Strait (upper jaw and baleen detail) in Southeast Alaska, USA. Pacific Ocean.

The transient Orca (Orcinus orca) pod T88 consisting of 6 animals in total. The pod was sighted off Cape Strait and followed to Beacon Point along the east coast of Kupreanof Island just outside of Petersburg, Southeast Alaska, USA. Pacific Ocean. The adu

A humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) calf breaching right at the camera off Chichagof Island, southeast Alaska, USA. Pacific Ocean. This particular calf became very surface active when its mother continued to bubble-net feed with a group of other adu

A humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) calf breaching right at the camera off Chichagof Island, southeast Alaska, USA. Pacific Ocean. This particular calf became very surface active when its mother continued to bubble-net feed with a group of other adu

Humpback Whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) co-operatively bubble-net feeding near small whale watching boat in Stephens Passage, Southeast Alaska, USA. Pacific Ocean.

The transient Orca (Orcinus orca) pod T88 consisting of 6 animals in total. The pod was sighted off Cape Strait and followed to Beacon Point along the east coast of Kupreanof Island just outside of Petersburg, Southeast Alaska, USA. Pacific Ocean. The adu

Humpback Whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) tail-throw Chatham Strait, Southeast Alaska, USA. Pacific Ocean.

An adult humpback whale repeatedly tail-lobbing in the inverted position (Megaptera novaeangliae) after dissaffiliating from a group co-operatively "bubble-net" feeding whales along the west side of Chatham Strait in Southeast Alaska, USA. Pacific Ocean.

A group of adult humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) co-operatively "bubble-net" feeding in Snow Pass in Southeast Alaska, USA. Pacific Ocean. Shown here is a close up of a whale forcing water out through its baleen plates, leaving the prey (herring)

Humpback Whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) blowing. Tenakee Inlet, South East Alaska

Humpback Whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) flicking flukes. Chatham Straits, S. E. Alaska

Humpback Whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) blowing. Tenakee Inlet, South East Alaska

Humpback Whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) pod surfacing (blow detail) off Point Adolphus, Southeast Alaska, USA. |