Rare orca superpod comes to Seattle John Ryan November 13, 2025 / 9:41 am

They came together Sunday evening not far from Port Townsend. Why, no one can say for sure, except the participants themselves — and no humans speak their language.

The participants were the Northwest’s endangered orcas. All 74 of them gathered into what researchers call a superpod — a sort of all-inclusive family reunion for every member of the southern resident killer whale population.

Before sunrise Monday morning, whale fans around the region were listening to the orcas’ distinctive calls captured by an underwater microphone near Edmonds that plays live 24/7 at orcasound.net.

In early morning light, observers on shore in Edmonds spotted a handful of pointy black dorsal fins just north of the cross-soun

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