#6: First Day on the Water
Video of a right whale! We saw a lot today!
To see more pictures from our first day out go to our web albums.
Here are some of those images:
A fluke recorded during the expedition. Flukes are one of the many features used to identify individual whales.
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To see more pictures from our first day out go to our web albums.
Here are some of those images:
Yan photographing a right whale.
A fluke recorded during the expedition. Flukes are one of the many features used to identify individual whales.
- Jonathan
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posted by Jonathan at
10:40 PM
6 Comments:
Awesome! Great sighting!
Have you got any hunches as to who you saw? These pictures are amazing. Thank you so much for posting!
wow.
how many can you see in one day?
how big is that whale? looks like it's smaller than your boat ... is it a baby?
Author's Answers
In response to Sam's questions:
Yes, we do have some hunches as to know we saw. We will not know for sure until the images are compared to the north atlantic right whale catalog (rwcatalog@neaq.org) and the whales are matched to existing whales in the catalog.
In response to anonymous 1:
We can see a lot of whales in a single day. It all depends on how many whales are in the Bay of Fundy and how many we can photograph. On August 6th, we saw 49 whales, 14 of which were duplicates (the same whale from earlier in the day). That would bring our total to 35 different whales seen that day. To put it in perspective that is almost 10% of the entire population.
In response to anonymous 2:
I am assuming you are referring to the photograph on Yan photographing a right whale. It is hard to say if that whale is smaller than our boat. It is a calf from this year, approximately 8 months old and between 28-32 feet in length.
Thanks for the answers!
Keep up the great blogging :)
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