Overview
Each winter in the warm waters of Mexico, gray whales give birth, nurse their calves, rest and play before their monumental journey north in spring. They swim 5,000 miles along the Pacific coast from Mexico to the Arctic. The trip ends in the nutrient-rich feeding grounds of the Bering Sea in Alaska to feed. In fall, they travel back to Mexico again to complete a round trip annual journey of 10,000 miles. Gray whales migrate farther than any mammal on Earth. |
![Newborn gray whale baby and mother](https://s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/journeynorth.org/images/graphics/tnail/gwhale/bj/BajaJonesWhaleWatch093_200.jpg) |
![Tourists watch baby gray whale in San Ignacio Lagoon.](https://s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/journeynorth.org/images/graphics/tnail/gwhale/SanIgnacio05_JFriday_200.jpg) |
![Playful calf with mother gray whale](https://s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/journeynorth.org/images/graphics/tnail/gwhale/SanIgn/CArmon_AprilMomCalf.jpg) |
Image: Keith Jones
January |
Image: Caroline Armon
February |
Image: Caroline Armon
March |
![Eye of a baby gray whale](https://s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/journeynorth.org/images/graphics/tnail/gwhale/SanIgn/CArmon_BabyEye.jpg) |
![Blows from gray whale mom and baby](https://s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/journeynorth.org/images/graphics/tnail/gwhale/SanIgn/ADeLiso_MomBabyBlows.jpg) |
![Spyhopping gray whale](https://s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/journeynorth.org/images/graphics/tnail/gwhale/SanIgn/ADeLiso_Spyhop1.jpg) |
Image: Adrienne DeLiso
April |
Image: Adrienne DeLiso
May |
Image: Adrienne DeLiso
June |
![Gray whale](https://s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/journeynorth.org/images/graphics/tnail/u-z/gwhale_Mexico055_200.jpg) |
![Gray whale fluke](https://s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/journeynorth.org/images/graphics/tnail/gwhale/bj/BajaJonesWhaleWatch005_200.jpg) |
![Baleen](https://s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/journeynorth.org/images/graphics/tnail/gwhale/Baleen_ReneeBonner_200.jpg) |
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Image: Keith Jones
August |
Image: Renee Bonner
September |
![Aerial view of gray whale in the Arctic](https://s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/journeynorth.org/images/graphics/gwhale/KateWynne_AerialGray_200.jpg) |
![Gray whale heart-shaped blow](https://s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/journeynorth.org/images/graphics/tnail/gwhale/Blow_MHSmith475_200.jpg) |
![Gray whale pectoral fin](https://s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/journeynorth.org/images/graphics/tnail/gwhale/bj/BajaJonesWhaleWatch155_200.jpg) |
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Image: Michael H. Smith
November |
Image: Keith Jones
December |