“Coming soon: Everything you wanted to know about Juneau’s most popular humpbacks”

A larger list of all the individual humpback whales that have been spotted swimming around Juneau already exists and just about every local whale watching outfit has a copy on board. But a group of marine mammal enthusiasts is working on a simplified version.

Shannon Easterly is a local whale watching guide in the summer, and she’s been working with marine mammals all over the country for about 10 years. For the past few months, she and three others (Gabrille Lopez, Brianna Pettie and Jayleen Bydlon) have been working on making a new, condensed catalog of humpbacks.

“The goal of the project is basically to make a mini catalog,” Easterly said. “[We want] to take that well over 100 whales and shrink it down to about the 20 most commonly sighted whales in Juneau.”

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Article originally posted on KTOO online, by Bridget Dowd on January 20th, 2022.