The Susitna River Delta as Calving Ground: Evidence From Observation of a Cook Inlet Beluga Birth and the 2005-2015 Seasonal and Geographic Patterns of Neonate Occurrence in Upper Cook Inlet.
January 01, 2016
Alaska Marine Science Symposium poster providing evidence to support the designation of the Susitna River Delta as Cook Inlet beluga whale calving grounds, and the nearshore areas of Upper Cook Inlet as nursery grounds.
The scientific literature has not identified if distinct calving grounds and calving seasons exist for endangered Cook Inlet beluga whales, as they do with other beluga populations. Specific calving grounds or seasonal calving periods for Cook Inlet beluga whales have not been designated because births in the wild have not been previously documented.