Puget Sound orca pod threatened by salmon decline The orcas lurking beneath the surface of Washington state's Puget Sound are some of nature's most magnificent, imposing and endangered species.

WHIDBEY ISLAND STATION, Wash. — Endangered Southern Resident orcas were seen in Puget Sound Saturday, the first whales to be see in the area since April. This was the first autumn sighting of ...

Tokitae was the last of the surviving Southern Resident orcas that were captured from the Puget Sound and sold into captivity. She was violently taken from her pod in Penn Cove on Whidbey Island ...

For the first time in half a century, a group of killer whales, or orcas, returned to a cove in Washington's Puget Sound. Penn Cove is known for a roundup by hunters that took place in the 1970s.