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CETACEAN STRANDINGS REPORTED TO THE CALIFORNIA
MARINE MAMMAL STRANDING NETWORK (2001)

Species

Number of Occurrences

Unidentified Common Dolphin

             15

Bottlenose Dolphin

             14

Harbor Porpoise

             14

Long-Beaked Common Dolphin

             13

Unidentified Dolphin

             11

Pacific White-Sided Dolphin

               7

Short-Beaked Common Dolphin

               6

Gray Whale

               5

Northern Right Whale Dolphin

               5

Unidentified Whale

               4

Risso’s Dolphin

               3

Humpback Whale

               2

Dall’s Porpoise

               2

Unidentified Balaenopterid

               2

Baird’s Beaked Whale

               1

Pygmy Beaked Whale

               1

Pygmy Sperm Whale

               1

Fin Whale

               1

Minke Whale

               1

Unidentified Cetacean

               1

Total

           109

03/23/2006


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