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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
The Humpback & The Gull
Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, Massachusetts, USA (April 2022)
Gloucester Dockworkers Unload Acadian Redfish
Gloucester, Massachusetts, USA (October 2021)
Mother Whale Breaching
Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, Massachusetts, USA
Sei Whale
Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, Massachusetts, USA (April 2022)
Northern Gannet in Gloucester Harbor
Gloucester, Massachusetts, USA (October 2023)
Humpback Lunge Feeding
Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, Massachusetts, USA
More from Selected Photos

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

20 Photos
Kashmir Rock Agama
Lete, Nepal (May 2013)
Barred Owl Perched Low Hunting a Fern Patch
Pawlet, Vermont, USA (June 2024)
Garden Cross Spider In Monastery Courtyard
Pokhara, Nepal (June 2013)
The Red Fox and the Rabbit
Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge, Maryland, USA (July 2023)
Nepali Weaver at Loom in Fern Patch
Kalopani, Nepal (May 2013)
Humpback Lunge Feeding Showing Baleen-Lined Mouth
Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, Massachusetts, USA
More from Biodiversity Life in the Coastal Seas

The eruption of species where the water meets land.

24 Observations
10 Identified Species
The Humpback & The Gull
Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, Massachusetts, USA (April 2022)
Northern Gannet in Gloucester Harbor
Gloucester, Massachusetts, USA (October 2023)
North Atlantic Humpback Whale Breaching
Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, Massachusetts, USA
Head-On Humpback Breach
Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, Massachusetts, USA
Spotted Eagle Ray
Vieques, Puerto Rico, USA (February 2013)
Cooperative Lunge Feeding Group of Humpback Whales Create Bubble Nets to Corral Prey
Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, Massachusetts, USA
More Observations of North Atlantic Humpback Whale
10 Other Observations
Humpback Exhales While Breaching
Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, Massachusetts, USA (August 2022)
Head-On Humpback Breach
Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, Massachusetts, USA
Mother Whale Breaching
Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, Massachusetts, USA
Humpback Lunge Feeding Showing Baleen-Lined Mouth
Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, Massachusetts, USA
North Atlantic Humpback Whale Breaching
Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, Massachusetts, USA
Humpback Spray & Gulls
Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, Massachusetts, USA (April 2022)
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