{"id":275180,"date":"2026-04-19T05:28:29","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T05:28:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/275180\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T05:28:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T05:28:29","slug":"whale-found-stranded-on-southwest-washington-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/275180\/","title":{"rendered":"Whale found stranded on Southwest Washington coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article-body__text article-body--padding color_dgray m-none\">A whale was found stranded on the Southwest Washington coast on Friday, adding to a growing number of the large marine mammals that have washed ashore across the region since the start of the year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-body__text article-body--padding color_dgray m-none\">The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said the animal was a Baird\u2019s beaked whale, discovered on the Long Beach Peninsula.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-body__text article-body--padding color_dgray m-none\">Michael Milstein, a press officer with NOAA\u2019s Northwest Fisheries Science Center, said that Baird\u2019s beaked whales are not commonly found stranded in Oregon, \u201cas they tend to frequent more distant, deeper waters.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-body__text article-body--padding color_dgray m-none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fisheries.noaa.gov\/species\/bairds-beaked-whale\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Baird\u2019s beaked whales<\/a>, sometimes called giant bottlenose whales, are found throughout the North Pacific Ocean and nearby seas, including along the West Coast from California to Alaska. According to NOAA Fisheries, the species prefers cold, deep ocean waters but may occasionally appear near shore along narrow continental shelves.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-body__text article-body--padding color_dgray m-none\">So far this year, at least 19 whales have been found on shore up and down the West Coast. On Tuesday, a 40-foot gray whale washed ashore on Oregon\u2019s Seaside Beach, its long tail moving with the ocean waves. It was the third dead whale to strand along the Oregon Coast this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-body__text article-body--padding color_dgray m-none\">OPB\u2019s April Ehrlich contributed to reporting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A whale was found stranded on the Southwest Washington coast on Friday, adding to a growing number of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":275181,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132,119045],"class_list":["post-275180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-washington-whales"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275180\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}