Gray Whale Migration Data: Courtesy of Alisa Schulman-Janiger and ACS/LA

Los Angeles Migration Data
Track the Turnaround!
Overview

February brings two-way whale traffic. Some whales are still going south and others are going north. The first time more northbound whales than southbound are counted is called the turnaround. The crossover period follows, when northbound whales start exceeding southbound whales. This page is updated daily to help you track the turnaround. When do you predict the count will start to show mostly northbound whales?

February 2017
Date	Northbound Whales	Southbound Whales
1-Feb	0	29
2-Feb	3	36
3-Feb	1	35
4-Feb	1	29
5-Feb	2	25
6-Feb	0	17
7-Feb	0	18
8-Feb	0	4
9-Feb	2	1
10-Feb	0	28
11-Feb	0	28
12-Feb	1	24
13-Feb	9	18
14-Feb	1	15
15-Feb	4	19
16-Feb	0	23
17-Feb	4	10
18-Feb	0	7
19-Feb	9	11
20-Feb	3	16
21-Feb	3	12
22-Feb	2	11
23-Feb	7	10
24-Feb	7	3
25-Feb	7	1
26-Feb	1	8
27-Feb	7	4
28-Feb
Data may not be used by others without written permission from Alisa Schulman-Janiger, American Cetacean Society/Los Angeles.

Data Courtesy of Alisa Schulman-Janiger
Alisa Schulman-Janiger, Director, ACS/LA Gray Whale Census and Behavior Project (on the right), with some of the team members. Whale watching takes place during daylight hours daily from the cliffside patio of the Point Vicente Interpretive Center Dec. 1 through late May.