RANGE: B owhead whales are found in the Bering, Chukchi, and Beaufort seas in the western Arctic Ocean; Baffin Bay, Davis Strait, and Hudson Bay in the Canadian Arctic; the Okhotsk Sea in Russia; and ...

Bowhead whales are adapted to extremely cold water. On their annual migration through the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas, they have been observed breaking ice up to two feet thick to make space to breathe.