The bowhead is a single species - closely related to the right whale - and is remarkable for being the only baleen whale to spend all its time in Arctic waters.    From Wordnik.com.  [BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition] Reference

The bowhead is classified as an endangered species.    From Wordnik.com.  [Management and conservation of marine mammals and seabirds in the Arctic] Reference

They essentially live off of the bowhead whale population.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 14, 2008] Reference

A male polar bear and his meal, the jawbone of a bowhead whale.    From Wordnik.com.  [Portraits of Polar Bears] Reference

Possible declines in bowhead, narwhal, grey, and beluga whales.    From Wordnik.com.  [Future change in processes and impacts on Arctic biota] Reference

Last year, Barrow and other Alaskan villages took 42 bowhead whales.    From Wordnik.com.  [‘A Whole New World’] Reference

In spring and fall, bowhead and beluga whales migrate along the coast.    From Wordnik.com.  [Riki Ott: The Human Cost of Bush's Arctic Policy] Reference

Some of them, like the bowhead whale, are listed as endangered species.    From Wordnik.com.  [Paying at the Pump] Reference

Nuiqsut whalers hunt for bowhead whales in the Beaufort Sea during the fall.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rosemary Ahtuangaruak: Shell's Arctic Drilling Will Destroy Our Homeland and Culture] Reference

The Inupiat culture is a whaling culture that revolves around bowhead whales.    From Wordnik.com.  [Riki Ott: Protecting a Whaling Culture] Reference

Shell proposed to drill directly in the endangered bowhead whale's migratory path.    From Wordnik.com.  [Trip Van Noppen: An Arctic Agenda for Secretary Salazar] Reference

Kenny placed a tray of "muktuk" - raw, frozen bowhead whale meat - on the kitchen table.    From Wordnik.com.  [Riki Ott: Protecting a Whaling Culture] Reference

There are 7,800 bowhead whales in the Arctic Ocean, 41 percent of the pre-whaling population.    From Wordnik.com.  [Riki Ott: Protecting a Whaling Culture] Reference

Natural history and conservation of the Greenland whale, or bowhead in the Northwest Atlantic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Management and conservation of marine mammals and seabirds in the Arctic] Reference

Natural history and conservation of the Greenland whale, or bowhead, in the Northwest Atlantic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Future change in processes and impacts on Arctic biota] Reference

Subsistence hunting of bowhead, gray, beluga, and minke whales takes place in Alaska (Fig. 11.15).    From Wordnik.com.  [Management and conservation of marine mammals and seabirds in the Arctic] Reference

Canadian natives took another bowhead whale from one of the eastern Arctic stocks, without a permit.    From Wordnik.com.  [President Letter On Policy Versus Canadian Whaling] Reference

In 1991, Canadian natives took a bowhead whale from the western Arctic stock, under a Canadian permit.    From Wordnik.com.  [President Letter On Policy Versus Canadian Whaling] Reference

Just four bowhead whales provide enough spoils to last a year for the roughly 500 villagers in Nuiqsut.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eric Kroh: Whalers Fear Effects Of Off-Shore Drilling] Reference

Itta calls the ocean his people's "garden," where they get much of their food, including bowhead whales.    From Wordnik.com.  [‘A Whole New World’] Reference

The adjacent marine environment includes harbor and ringed seals, as well as bowhead whales in the summer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hudson Plains ecoregion (CEC)] Reference

Their culture revolves around the tradition of hunting bowhead whales from a platform of ice on the water.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-04-01] Reference

There they spent the summer slaughtering right and bowhead whales and rendering the fat into oil for Europe.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hunting Whales, Exploiting the Sea] Reference

This technology, driven by greed and need, threatens the Inupiat culture - and the endangered bowhead whales.    From Wordnik.com.  [Riki Ott: Protecting a Whaling Culture] Reference

This change in the physical environment created extensive new range for bowhead whales and for longer periods.    From Wordnik.com.  [Climate change impacts on Canadian Inuit in Nunavut] Reference

A bowhead whale was more work to kill and bring home than a mammoth … but it was wonderfully almost straight fat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rapid health improvements with a Paleolithic diet | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D.] Reference

As a dozen or more polar bears fed at the diminishing bowhead carcasses, a pair of bright eyes shone in the darkness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Edge of Extinction] Reference

It would allow 69 bowhead whales, 145 gray whales, 14 humpbacks and 109 fin whales to be hunted each year around the world.    From Wordnik.com.  [Whaling Commission Proposes To Allow Whale Hunting Under Strict Limits] Reference

The adjacent marine environment is typified by walrus, ringed and bearded seals, narwhal, bowhead, and other species of whale.    From Wordnik.com.  [Arctic Cordillera ecoregion (CEC)] Reference

Seismic tests push migratory caribou farther south, away from Nuiqsut, and migratory bowhead whales further north, out to sea.    From Wordnik.com.  [Riki Ott: The Human Cost of Bush's Arctic Policy] Reference

Articles cover such topics as the Canyonlands, bowhead whales, desertification, black people and energy, and the Panama Canal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Has Jesus Come and Gone?] Reference

"That is like the most obnoxious bowhead twit girl name I could think of" My apologies in advance to anyone named Muffy out there!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-07-01] Reference

Any harm from Shell's activities to our resources, including bowhead whales, seals, fish and caribou, threatens our food and our health.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rosemary Ahtuangaruak: Shell's Arctic Drilling Will Destroy Our Homeland and Culture] Reference

Number of oil-rich bowhead whales in existence in the Arctic before commercial whalers went after them at the turn of the century: 50,000.    From Wordnik.com.  [AlaskaDispatch.com: Gulf Spill: All the Oily Facts That Are Fit to Print] Reference

The oldest known bowhead whale was at least 211 years old.    From Wordnik.com.  [Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz] Reference

Only one was from a North Atlantic right whale - the rest were from bowhead whales.    From Wordnik.com.  [TreeHugger] Reference

Also known as the Arctic whale, the bowhead is by far the longest living mammal on Earth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz] Reference