Florida has recorded only 36 pygmy killer whale encounters, and all but one came through GBIF’s stranding and survey data rather than live sightings posted to iNaturalist. That split fits a deep-diving species rarely seen from shore or boats. It’s native to Florida’s waters, though NatureServe hasn’t assigned the state a numeric rank (SNR).
Records turn up across most months, with September producing the most at seven, edging out smaller clusters in January, March, and July. With numbers this low, that’s too thin a spread to call a real seasonal pattern, more likely a byproduct of when strandings happen to get reported.
