Baird’s beaked whale has only 20 California records in the file, with reports confined to April through October and September contributing six. That is too small and uneven a sample to turn the apparent spring and late-summer clusters into a firm seasonal claim.
The suggested-place field names the Sierra Nevada, Los Padres National Forest, and Central Valley, land settings that cannot contextualize a whale record. With no usable marine place tally, the file supports only a cautious account of when reports were submitted, not where whales concentrate or how many occur off California.
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