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North Atlantic Humpback Whale Breaching

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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
Humpback Calf Breaches Repeatedly with Mother for Over Forty Minutes
Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, Massachusetts, USA (August 2022)
Humpback Spray & Gulls
Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, Massachusetts, USA (April 2022)
Humpback Lunge Feeding
Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, Massachusetts, USA
Atlantic White-Sided Dolphin Cruising the Coast of Cape Ann
Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, Massachusetts, USA
Basking Shark
Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, Massachusetts, USA (July 2024)
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26 Observations
18 Identified Species
Eastern Coyote At Forest Edge
Pawlet, Vermont, USA (July 2013)
North American Porcupine
Pawlet, Vermont, USA (August 2025)
Seal Side-Eye
Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, Massachusetts, USA (April 2022)
Sika Deer
Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge, Maryland, USA (July 2023)
Macaque Mother Eating Corn Raided from Nepalese Farm
Hemja, Nepal (June 2013)
Mother Whale Breaching
Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, Massachusetts, USA
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The eruption of species where the water meets land.

24 Observations
10 Identified Species
Basking Shark
Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, Massachusetts, USA (July 2024)
Head-On Humpback Breach
Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, Massachusetts, USA
Porpoising Atlantic White-Sided Dolphin
Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, Massachusetts, USA (July 2024)
Humpback Exhales While Breaching
Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, Massachusetts, USA (August 2022)
Spotted Eagle Ray
Vieques, Puerto Rico, USA (February 2013)
Porpoising Dolphin Reenters Water
Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, Massachusetts, USA (August 2024)
More Observations of North Atlantic Humpback Whale
10 Other Observations
The Humpback & The Gull
Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, Massachusetts, USA (April 2022)
Humpback Lunge Feeding
Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, Massachusetts, USA
Humpback Exhales While Breaching
Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, Massachusetts, USA (August 2022)
Mother Whale Breaching
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
Humpback Lunge Feeding Showing Baleen-Lined Mouth
Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, Massachusetts, USA
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