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Humpback Calf Breaches

Repeatedly with Mother for Over Forty Minutes

4 August 2022

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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
Seal Side-Eye
Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, Massachusetts, USA (April 2022)
North Atlantic Right Whale
Humpback Exhales While Breaching
Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, Massachusetts, USA (August 2022)
Northern Gannet in Gloucester Harbor
Gloucester, Massachusetts, USA (October 2023)
Porpoising Dolphin Reenters Water
Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, Massachusetts, USA (August 2024)
Mother Humpback Diving into Sunset Atlantic
Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, Massachusetts, USA (July 2024)
More from Selected Photos

Personal favorites from across my collections — for the aesthetics, or the light, or the moment.

19 Photos
Barred Owl Drops on Prey Hunting a patch of reeds at the edge of New York grasslands.
New York, USA
Mumbai Street Cricket
Mumbai, India (February 2000)
Joey Ramone Legendary Singer of The Ramones in 1997
Asbury Park, New Jersey, USA
Crocodile Stalks Pond Edge
Everglades National Park, Florida, USA (March 2020)
Kashmir Rock Agama
Lete, Nepal (May 2013)
Nepali Weaver at Loom in Fern Patch
Kalopani, Nepal (May 2013)
More from Biodiversity Life in the Coastal Seas

The eruption of species where the water meets land.

24 Observations
10 Identified Species
Northern Gannet in Gloucester Harbor
Gloucester, Massachusetts, USA (October 2023)
Humpback Exhales While Breaching
Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, Massachusetts, USA (August 2022)
North Atlantic Right Whale
Basking Shark
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
Loggerhead Sea Turtle Foraging Sea Grass in Turbulent Cove
Paros, Greece (August 2017)
More Observations of North Atlantic Humpback Whale
10 Other Observations
Humpback Lunge Feeding
Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, Massachusetts, USA
Humpback Spray & Gulls
Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, Massachusetts, USA (April 2022)
Humpback Lunge Feeding Showing Baleen-Lined Mouth
Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, Massachusetts, USA
Cooperative Lunge Feeding Group of Humpback Whales Create Bubble Nets to Corral Prey
Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, Massachusetts, USA
Head-On Humpback Breach
Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, Massachusetts, USA
Mother Whale Breaching
Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, Massachusetts, USA
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