Call Catalog

Southern Resident Killer Whales Call Catalog

Orcasound maintains an online catalog of the SRKW calls (built by Val Veirs and his students at Colorado College, based on the Osborne-Ford tape, March 1981, and the call classification of Ford, 1987). You can browse 48 Ford call entries and variants recorded throughout the habitat of J, K, and L pod, with available audio, generated waveform images, color spectrograms, and Ford catalog spectrograms.

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Image Credit: John Ford, 1987 catalog from which the B&W images were taken.