Dead whale found on beach near Cape Disappointment
Cape Disappointment is in Ilwaco on the Long Beach Peninsula on the southwest corner of Washington.
Experts with the Cascadia Research Collective and Portland State University are performing a necropsy, Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife spokesperson, Jennifer Sepulveda, told KOMO News.
WDFW said the whale was the fifth reported dead in Washington so far this year.
Sepulveda said the deaths are fairly common this time of year when gray whales are migrating north past Washington to their summer range and become stranded.
Comment: Also recently, further south along the western seaboard: Dead gray whale washes ashore at Alameda beach, California - 4th in Bay Area so far this year