YouTube Videos

We have uploaded several videos to our YouTube channel:

Our Volunteers (First half of the 2020 season), runtime = 3.2 min

Halo Returns (Female #3546, Halo, returned to Flagler Beach on 27 January 2020.  A second sighting that day was of mother #3560 and calf off Daytona Beach, runtime = 2.8 min)

Frisky Calf (a view of Halo’s playful calf off Daytona Beach Shores on 4 February 2020, runtime = 1.2 min)

News4Jax Interviews Volunteers (On 10 February 2020, a TV news crew came to Marineland to interview volunteers from Monday’s Team 2, runtime = 1.9 min)

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Alternatively, you can go to YouTube, search on Marineland Right Whale Project, and click on the logo.  The list of new (and old) videos will come up.

Calf Count and Halo Travels

Good News for Calving Season

On Monday, 3 February, the SE US aerial survey teams sighted three new right whale calves, bringing the total for the season to nine!  Catalog #2642, Echo, and #3290, Arrow, were sighted off Florida (to the north of us), and #2223, Calvin, was sighted off Georgia.  We now have surpassed the calf production for any of the three previous years. Great news indeed!

Halo is on the Move

On Monday, 27 January, we had #3546, Halo, in Flagler Beach.  On Friday, 31 January, Halo and her calf were south of Cape Canaveral and off Cocoa Beach.  Next, the pair appeared off South Daytona Beach on Tuesday, 4 February. Early on 5 February, the phone rang at 7:02.  “Whales in North Flagler, moving north.”  We deployed a response team.  The first drone launch for the day was at 07:57 from Flagler-by-the-Sea Campground.  It was Halo.  Does her vigorous northward travel mean she has begun her migration to Cape Cod, Maine, and Canada?  We don’t know.  More to come.