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'North Atlantic Right Whale' Photograph by Ryan Van Meter

North Atlantic Right Whale

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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
Head-On Humpback Breach
Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, Massachusetts, USA
Humpback Spray & Gulls
Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, Massachusetts, USA (April 2022)
Humpback Calf Breaches Repeatedly with Mother for Over Forty Minutes
Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, Massachusetts, USA (August 2022)
The Humpback & The Gull
Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, Massachusetts, USA (April 2022)
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
Common Mola Basking at Surface Ocean Sunfish
Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, Massachusetts, USA (August 2022)
Porpoising Atlantic White-Sided Dolphin
Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, Massachusetts, USA (July 2024)
Basking Shark
Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, Massachusetts, USA (July 2024)
Humpback Exhales While Breaching
Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, Massachusetts, USA (August 2022)
Atlantic White-Sided Dolphin Cruising the Coast of Cape Ann
Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, Massachusetts, USA
Northern Gannet in Gloucester Harbor
Gloucester, Massachusetts, USA (October 2023)
More from Biodiversity Hall of Mammals
26 Observations
18 Identified Species
American Black Bear
Pawlet, Vermont, USA (May 2024)
Elk Bull
Baca National Wildlife Refuge, Crestone, Colorado, USA (September 2016)
Humpback Lunge Feeding
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
Five-Striped Palm Squirrel In the Garden of the Shechen Monastery
Kathmandu, Nepal (May 2013)
The Humpback & The Gull
Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, Massachusetts, USA (April 2022)
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