{"id":583668,"date":"2026-04-14T13:12:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T13:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/583668\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T13:12:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T13:12:15","slug":"gray-whale-washes-up-dead-along-oregon-coast-near-yachats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/583668\/","title":{"rendered":"Gray whale washes up dead along Oregon coast near Yachats"},"content":{"rendered":"

YACHATS, Ore. (KATU) \u2014 A gray whale washed up dead along the Oregon coastline on Sunday, more than a week after three other whales were also found dead in Southwest Washington.<\/p>\n

At about 7:10 a.m. Sunday, Oregon Parks and Recreation Department staff learned that a roughly 40-foot-long Gray whale was stranded in the surf south of Forest Service Tillicum Beach Campground near Yachats.<\/p>\n

The parks department let the Marine Mammal Stranding Network (MMSN) know about the whale, and a beach ranger went out to the scene.<\/p>\n

The whale was confirmed to be dead, and parks officials said it appeared to have died several days before washing ashore. They are still working to establish a cause of death.<\/p>\n

Oregon Parks & Rec put a safety perimeter around the whale, and MMSN staff has taken samples for further evaluation. The state has everything ready to bury the whale once their work is done.<\/p>\n

\u201cVisitors are urged to respect all barriers set by park rangers and avoid approaching the whale for their safety and to protect ongoing assessment efforts,\u201d said Oregon Parks & Rec Dept. spokesperson Mike Baden.<\/p>\n

RELATED | 3 Gray whales found dead in Washington, including 2 malnourished on Ocean Shores beach<\/a><\/p>\n

On April 3, two dead Gray whales washed up in Ocean Shores, Washington. Both were malnourished and one, a male, had \u201csignificant trauma to the head\u201d that could have been from being struck by a ship.<\/p>\n

On April 4, a third juvenile Gray whale that had recently been seen in the Willapa River also died.<\/p>\n

\u201cGray whales are generally solitary and do not travel in family groups; the timing and proximity of these strandings are considered to be most likely the result of general migration patterns, tides and currents,\u201d the nonprofit Cascadia Research Collective said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"YACHATS, Ore. (KATU) \u2014 A gray whale washed up dead along the Oregon coastline on Sunday, more than…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":583669,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[79,201],"class_list":{"0":"post-583668","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=583668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/583669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}