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Winter Habitat

The lagoons in Baja California provide the whales with calm, warm water. This makes for an easier winter than the rough northern seas. The shallow waters provide an excellent habitat for birthing. The whales will spend the entire winter here taking care of their young before departing the following March or April.

Each spring, the gray whales and their new young head back to their feeding grounds. The three month journey will bring them back to the Chukchi and Bering Seas. The whales will stay there until the next fall. The year long process will begin all over again starting in October.