Aucklanders can help to save a healthy but confused killer whale today by keeping an eye out for the lost orca.

Washed up on the city’s west coast on Friday and relaunched on the east coast’s Takapuna Beach on Saturday, the orca was spotted high up the inner Waitemata Harbour’s Henderson Creek yesterday by a pair of kayakers.

Orca Research staff responded, with police, coastguard and boaties, to try to shepherd the juvenile 4-year-old female to the Hauraki Gulf.

But boat traffic, especially from ferries, further confused the whale, Orca Research Trust founder Dr Ingrid Visser told the Herald.

Read more in The New Zealand Herald.

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