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Humpback whale swims 60 miles up California's Sacramento River

An adult humpback nicknamed Rio surfaced far from the Pacific, prompting monitoring by marine biologists.

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What to know

  • An adult humpback whale, identified as CRC-11620 and nicknamed Rio, was seen roughly 60 miles inland in the Sacramento River, far from its typical Pacific habitat.
  • The Marine Mammal Center is monitoring the whale's condition and does not know if it is simply passing through or has an underlying health issue.
  • The whale has been documented 15 times over 24 years, most recently off Baja California in February, and researchers don't know its sex.
  • Officials and the fisherman who spotted it say the whale appeared to be moving normally; the public is asked to keep a respectful distance, echoing past inland whale visits by Humphrey (1985) and Delta and Dawn (2007).

“It came up and went down in fairly regular intervals. It was moving along at a fair clip. It wasn't acting erratically other than that it was upstream in a freshwater river.”

Denny Glover, fisherman · Philadelphia Inquirer (AP) ↗ · Sep 17

Denny Glover fisherman who spotted the whaleKathi George Director of Cetacean Conservation Biology, The Marine Mammal CenterThe Marine Mammal Center nonprofit marine research organization

Humpback whale swims 60 miles up California's Sacramento River
Baltimore Sun

How it unfolded 2 developments, newest first · click a bar or a number to jump articlesposts

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Sep 19Sep 20Sep 21Sep 22yesterdaynow · 2:03 AM ET
  1. 2

    Story circulates further via social sharing of AP footage

    AP's video of the sighting was reposted on social platforms such as Mastodon, extending the story's reach beyond initial news coverage.

    1. 8 outlets A humpback whale was spotted in a California river, 60 miles from its Pacific Ocean home

      first by Phys.org, 4d ago · also Independent UK, Newser, AP News, Mercury News, Orlando Sentinel, Baltimore Sun +1

      2 more headlines
    • verdantsquare@mastodon.world

      From AP: Humpback whale is spotted in a California river 60 miles from the Pacific Ocean https://www. youtube.com/watch?v=cLLWTiV51X I&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon * VSN-GDPM c1996 # news # SupportIndependentMedia # vsn

      verdantsquare@mastodon.worldMastodon5d agoview on Mastodon ↗
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    AP wire story spreads the sighting nationally, adds history

    An Associated Press report distributed to multiple papers detailed the whale's 60-mile inland journey, noted it has been documented 15 times over 24 years with its last sighting in Baja California in February, and recalled past inland whales Humphrey (1985) and Delta and Dawn (2007).

    “I honestly, I didn’t believe it. I thought he had mistaken a dolphin or porpoise or whatever. I just didn’t believe him.”
    — Denny Glover, fisherman · source
  3. background

    Marine Mammal Center identifies the whale as CRC-11620, 'Rio' — The Sausalito-based center confirmed the whale had entered San Francisco Bay earlier in the week and traveled east into the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, and said its cetacean team would assess and monitor the animal while urging the public not to interfere.

  4. background

    Fisherman films humpback whale surfacing in Sacramento River — Denny Glover and friends were fishing for salmon and striped bass south of the Rio Vista Bridge when they spotted the whale's spout and filmed it with a phone.

Also covered reported alongside — the timeline has no entry for these yet

  1. 3 outlets Humpback whale spotted in Sacramento River near Rio Vista, similar to Humphrey the Whale

    first by ABC7 Bay Area, 5d ago · also KCRA, ABC10

    2 more headlines

and 3 smaller pieces