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'Head-On Humpback Breach' Photograph by Ryan Van Meter

Head-On Humpback Breach

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Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, Massachusetts, USA

North Atlantic Humpback Whale

Megaptera novaeangliae ssp. novaeangliae
More Observations from Expedition Gloucester

Surveys of marine life and pelagic birds taken aboard New England whale watch boats (2021 to 2024)

22 Observations
9 Identified Species
Cooperative Lunge Feeding Group of Humpback Whales Create Bubble Nets to Corral Prey
Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, Massachusetts, USA
Basking Shark
Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, Massachusetts, USA (July 2024)
Porpoising Atlantic White-Sided Dolphin
Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, Massachusetts, USA (July 2024)
Mother Humpback Diving into Sunset Atlantic
Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, Massachusetts, USA (July 2024)
Humpback Exhales While Breaching
Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, Massachusetts, USA (August 2022)
The Humpback & The Gull
Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, Massachusetts, USA (April 2022)
More from Biodiversity Hall of Mammals
26 Observations
18 Identified Species
Eastern Coyote At Forest Edge
Pawlet, Vermont, USA (July 2013)
Newborn Deer Calf
Seguin, Texas, USA (May 2014)
Groundhog
Pawlet, Vermont, USA (May 2025)
North Atlantic Right Whale
Humpback Lunge Feeding
Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, Massachusetts, USA
North American Porcupine
Pawlet, Vermont, USA (August 2025)
More from Biodiversity Life in the Coastal Seas

The eruption of species where the water meets land.

24 Observations
10 Identified Species
North Atlantic Humpback Whale Breaching
Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, Massachusetts, USA
Humpback Lunge Feeding Showing Baleen-Lined Mouth
Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, Massachusetts, USA
Loggerhead Sea Turtle Foraging Sea Grass in Turbulent Cove
Paros, Greece (August 2017)
Porpoising Harbor Seal
Castine, Maine (September 2021)
Northern Gannet Dives into the Stellwagen Bank
Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, Massachusetts, USA
Common Mola Basking at Surface Ocean Sunfish
Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, Massachusetts, USA (August 2022)
More Observations of North Atlantic Humpback Whale
10 Other Observations
Humpback Spray & Gulls
Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, Massachusetts, USA (April 2022)
North Atlantic Humpback Whale Breaching
Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, Massachusetts, USA
Mother Humpback Diving into Sunset Atlantic
Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, Massachusetts, USA (July 2024)
Cooperative Lunge Feeding Group of Humpback Whales Create Bubble Nets to Corral Prey
Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, Massachusetts, USA
Humpback Lunge Feeding Showing Baleen-Lined Mouth
Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, Massachusetts, USA
Humpback Lunge Feeding
Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, Massachusetts, USA
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