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Berardius bairdii

Baird's Beaked Whale

Speciesaccepted · checked 2026-08-05WoRMS 242608ITIS 180496key worms:242608
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2026-08-05: itis_id 180496 via WoRMS external link

calcofi:marine_mammals

Baird's beaked whale, also known commonly as the northern giant bottlenose whale, North Pacific bottlenose whale, giant four-toothed whale, northern four-toothed whale and North Pacific four-toothed whale, is a species of whale in the genus Berardius of the family Ziphiidae.W CalCOFI holds 5 observations of it in 1 dataset between 2001 and 2016.R

5
observations
5
records
5
sampling events
2001–2016
years
1
datasets
11.9 m
max length
Berardius bairdii
Photo · NOAA United States. National Marine Fisheries Service · Public domain · commons

Observed in 1 dataset
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One row per dataset, and beside it one cell per year, darker with more observations — the same strip the front door draws per dataset. Each row ends with the name that dataset uses (dataset_taxon); the accepted name is written once, in the title above. A quiet pill marks a name the authority does not accept.

Ways inExplorerdb-queryERDDAPRPythonThis page as JSON

Code and endpoints ERDDAP · R · Python · JSON
ERDDAPCalCOFI's own server, the Seabirds & Marine Mammals table constrained to this taxon
https://erddap.calcofi.io/erddap/tabledap/farallon_bird-mammal.html?&taxon_key=%22worms:242608%22

Read from taxa.json of release v2026.10.20, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

How big is it 11.9 m max
Baird's Beaked Whale11.9 m
R/V Reuben Lasker63.6 m

max · sealifebase

Every mark is a measured length with its own source — hover one to read it. The reference objects are _data/size_reference.csv: two of them, the 505 µm bongo mesh and the net's ring, are CalCOFI's own sampling gear.

Lineage 14 ranks · Biota to Berardius
Credits silhouette · photo · text · length
  • Silhouette · T. Michael Keesey · CC BY-SA 3.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Berardius bairdi · source
  • Photo · NOAA United States. National Marine Fisheries Service · Public domain · commons · source
  • Text · Wikipedia, “Baird's beaked whale” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1367410786
  • Length · sealifebase
Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist · GBIF

WikidataiNaturalistGBIF

The same organism on the services the faces were fetched from; the authorities' own pages are the ids in the head.

Cite the release, v2026.10.20

Cite the release, v2026.10.20; each dataset's own citation, licence and DOI are on its page. How to cite ↗