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Thursday, December 23, 2004
Volunteers will help winter whale watchers
PORTLAND -- Volunteers will be at 28 sites along the Oregon coast next week to help spot gray whales making their winter migration to Mexico.
More than 20,000 gray whales averaging about 30 tons each are expected to make their annual move south from their Alaska summer feeding grounds to their winter mating and birthing areas off Baja California in Mexico.
Last year, the volunteers helped nearly 13,000 visitors spot 848 whales off the Oregon coast during the peak of their migration.
The highest whale count during the winter event since record-keeping began 17 years ago was 3,152 in 1994-95. The highest number of visitors was more than 19,000 in 2000-01.
The round-trip migration by the gray whales is one of the longest of any mammal, covering 8,500 to 11,000 miles.
Volunteers will be at the 28 designated sites from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. each of the eight days from Sunday through Jan. 2.
The counting results will be posted online.
To see them, along with more information on the gray whale migration, visit www.whalespoken.org.
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