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The Humpback & The Gull

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
Humpback Lunge Feeding Showing Baleen-Lined Mouth
Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, Massachusetts, USA
Seal Side-Eye
Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, Massachusetts, USA (April 2022)
Porpoising Dolphin Reenters Water
Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, Massachusetts, USA (August 2024)
North Atlantic Right Whale
Basking Shark
Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, Massachusetts, USA (July 2024)
Porpoising Atlantic White-Sided Dolphin
Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, Massachusetts, USA (July 2024)
More from Biodiversity Hall of Mammals
26 Observations
18 Identified Species
North American Porcupine
Pawlet, Vermont, USA (August 2025)
North Atlantic Humpback Whale Breaching
Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, Massachusetts, USA
North Atlantic Right Whale
Cooperative Lunge Feeding Group of Humpback Whales Create Bubble Nets to Corral Prey
Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, Massachusetts, USA
Seal Side-Eye
Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, Massachusetts, USA (April 2022)
Five-Striped Palm Squirrel In the Garden of the Shechen Monastery
Kathmandu, Nepal (May 2013)
More from Biodiversity Life in the Coastal Seas

The eruption of species where the water meets land.

24 Observations
10 Identified Species
Porpoising Dolphin Reenters Water
Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, Massachusetts, USA (August 2024)
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
Humpback Exhales While Breaching
Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, Massachusetts, USA (August 2022)
Porpoising Atlantic White-Sided Dolphin
Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, Massachusetts, USA (July 2024)
Humpback Spray & Gulls
Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, Massachusetts, USA (April 2022)
More Observations of North Atlantic Humpback Whale
10 Other Observations
Humpback Calf Breaches Repeatedly with Mother for Over Forty Minutes
Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, Massachusetts, USA (August 2022)
Mother Whale Breaching
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)
Head-On Humpback Breach
Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, Massachusetts, USA
Humpback Exhales While Breaching
Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, Massachusetts, USA (August 2022)
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