'Seal Side-Eye' Photograph by Ryan Van Meter

Seal Side-Eye

18 April 2022

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Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, Massachusetts, USA

Atlantic Grey Seal

Halichoerus grypus ssp. atlantica
iNaturalist Observation
MARKED RESEARCH GRADE

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Surveys of marine life and pelagic birds taken aboard New England whale watch boats (2021 to 2024)

22 Observations
9 Identified Species
Basking Shark
Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, Massachusetts, USA (July 2024)
The Humpback & The Gull
Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, Massachusetts, USA (April 2022)
Mother Whale Breaching
Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, Massachusetts, USA
Northern Gannet in Gloucester Harbor
Gloucester, 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

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24 Observations
11 Identified Species
Humpback Lunge Feeding
Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, Massachusetts, USA
Common Mola Basking at Surface Ocean Sunfish
Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, Massachusetts, USA (August 2022)
Head-On Humpback Breach
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
North Atlantic Right Whale
Northern Gannet in Gloucester Harbor
Gloucester, Massachusetts, USA

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19 Identified Species
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Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge, Maryland, USA (July 2023)
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Elk Bull
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Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, Massachusetts, USA
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