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Humpback Spray & Gulls

23 April 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)
Seal Side-Eye
Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, Massachusetts, USA (April 2022)
Basking Shark
Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, Massachusetts, USA (July 2024)
Head-On Humpback Breach
Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, Massachusetts, USA
Mother Whale Breaching
Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, Massachusetts, USA
Gloucester Dockworkers Unload Acadian Redfish
Gloucester, Massachusetts, USA (October 2021)
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)
Sei Whale
Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, Massachusetts, USA (April 2022)
Common Mola Basking at Surface Ocean Sunfish
Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, Massachusetts, USA (August 2022)
North Atlantic Humpback Whale Breaching
Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, Massachusetts, USA
Loggerhead Sea Turtle Foraging Sea Grass in Turbulent Cove
Paros, Greece (August 2017)
Humpback Lunge Feeding Showing Baleen-Lined Mouth
Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, Massachusetts, USA
More Observations of North Atlantic Humpback Whale
10 Other Observations
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
Mother 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 Exhales While Breaching
Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, Massachusetts, USA (August 2022)
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