Where do they live? |
Beluga whales inhabit the Arctic and subarctic regions of Russia, Greenland, and North America. Some populations migrate, moving north in the spring and south in the fall as the ice forms in the Arctic. As the ice breaks up in the spring, the whales move north again feeding near river mouths and offshore. There are a few isolated populations that do not migrate in the spring, including those in the Cook Inlet, Alaska and the St. Lawrence estuary in Canada.