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BOEM and NOAA Use Drones to Tag Endangered Whales

9 juni 2022 door frank

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary on Wednesday announced the successful digital acoustic tagging of 14 sei whales in waters offshore Massachusetts. >> read more …

Dalgety Bay: Sei whale skeleton taken by National Museum of Scotland

18 december 2021 door frank

IT HAD looked like an ignominious end for the sei whale that washed up in West Fife recently, with the carcass dumped at a landfill site, but it turns out the skeleton could go on display for millions of visitors to see in Edinburgh. >> read more …

Doden van 25 bedreigde walvissen door Japan is onhoudbaar

13 november 2021 door frank

Dit weekend keert de Japanse walvisvloot weer terug naar land met 25 gedode, bedreigde Noordse vinvissen aan boord. Natuurbeschermers hebben verklaard dat het doden van deze bedreigde walvissen onhoudbaar en niet te verdedigen is. Momenteel zijn er nog maar 400 Noordse vinvissen over van de westelijke kustpopulatie. >> lees verder …

Sei Whale Successfully Refloated

11 november 2021 door frank

Yesterday, Wednesday 10th November 2021, The British Divers Marine Life Rescue received a callout to a stranding of a whale in North Queensferry, Scotland. A team of our trained Marine Mammal Medics were dispatched to attend to the animal. It appeared the animal was stuck in chest-deep water and was unable to free itself. >> … Meer lezen

Sei whale in the Firth of Forth

26 april 2021 door frank

Sei whales are rarely seen in Scotland, but last week a sighting in the Firth of Forth, Queensferry, prompted huge excitement for onlookers who didn’t realise just how lucky they were! >> read more …

The Sei whale

6 november 2020 door frank

Whalecome to our new whale of the month, the sei whale, Balaenoptera borealis! This mysterious baleen whale is the third largest of the rorqual family. It is also an endangered species that was hunted to near-extinction and is now slowly recovering. Here are a couple of cool facts about the sei whale. >> read more … Meer lezen

Vinvis in Thames blijkt een zeldzame Noordse vinvis te zijn

21 oktober 2019 door frank

Yesterday, a CSIP team from ZSL carried out a necropsy on the whale which had been found floating dead in the Thames near Gravesend last Friday. The whale turned out to be a 9.7m juvenile female sei whale, which is a relatively unusual species for the UK. This is only the seventh sei whale to be recorded stranded in the UK since the inception of the UK strandings programme in 1990.
Photo credits: Cetacean Strandings Investigation Programme- UK strandings

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