Endangered fin whales, the 2nd-largest animal ever, live in the New York Bight year-round, shows new WCS Ocean Giants co-authored research. This research can be used to inform best practices and help develop effective management strategies. bit.ly/48djpDT #WorldWhaleDay

🐋 🌆🐋 A paper by #WHOI and WCS in Scientific Reports shows that the New York Bight is important year-round habitat for endangered fin whales. Celebrate #WorldWhaleDay! Learn more about this research: go.whoi.edu/fin-whales 📸 taken under NMFS ESA/MMPA Permit 18766-04 by WCS

“It is truly remarkable that the second largest animal to have ever lived on this Earth is here off our coast year-round,” Howard Rosenbaum of WCS Ocean Giants tells the The New York Times. nytimes.com/2024/02/23/nyr…

It's #WorldWildlifeDay. Thank you for all you do to save wildlife and wild places. We can't survive without them. More about what we're doing to save species: wcs.org/our-work/wildl… #WWD2024

New #RightWhale #SlowZone SE of New York, NY in effect thru 3/26. Mariners are requested to avoid or transit at 10 kts or less. See map for locations of Slow Zones in effect. Sign up for alerts: bit.ly/49AVAXG

Previously, WCS Ocean Giants team documented that bottlenose dolphins live in the busy waters off New York and New Jersey from spring to fall. They spend a lot of their time here feeding, suggesting that these animals may be drawn to this area to “dine."

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THIS WEEK: Aerial surveys of the #HudsonCanyon area in the #NewYorkBight by NOAA remarkably spotted roughly 10% (35 individuals) of the world’s Critically Endangered North Atlantic right whale population. Also surveyed were fin whales (8) and, not often seen, sei whales (31).

New #RightWhale #SlowZone E Atlantic City, NJ, in effect thru 7/17. Mariners are requested to avoid or transit at 10 kts or less. See map for location of all the Slow Zones. Sign up for alerts here: bit.ly/49AVAXG

Great news! We just deployed 7 acoustic recorders as part of a NYS Energy Research and Development Authority-funded New York Bight (NYB) passive acoustic monitoring project. We are monitoring for whale and ocean noise within the NYB offshore wind lease areas. What we learn will help with management decisions.

LISTEN: The world's second-largest animal, the fin whale, can be found in the busy waters off #NewYork year-round, our science showed earlier this year. Has important conservation implications. 🔊 Part 5 of our #WCSWildAudio Summer Series: apple.co/3SNMqRr

It’s prime time for whale watching in New York, writes Gothamist. “People are now becoming more accustomed and more familiar with seeing whales and seeing dolphins off of our shores,” says WCS’s Howard Rosenbaum. gothamist.com/news/its-prime…

Characterizing blowfish play among bottlenose dolphins in Shark Bay, WA 🐡 Big thanks to Meredith MacQueeney for presenting our work at #PerthSMM2024 #SMM2024 Shark Bay Dolphin Research Project Marine Mammalogy

An expert from SMRU (now posting at Bluesky) has developed an award-winning tool that can track dolphins by their regional accents. 🙌 🐬 Read more 👇 ow.ly/KtbM50UpZXR #EverToExcel

This winter, the @WCSOcean Giants team retrieved and redeployed 6 acoustic monitoring instruments for a two-year project, supported by NYS Energy Research and Development Authority. The data helps create baseline info on marine mammal species and ocean noise in offshore wind lease areas, guiding best practices.

Our WCS-Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) acoustic monitoring buoys picked up North Atlantic right whales in NY Bight yesterday. This triggers slow zones, crucial to protect the whales. bit.ly/4aQNo7v Last week in this area, NOAAFish_NEFSC saw a mother (Accordion, #4150) with her first calf.

🐋WCS -Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) acoustic monitoring buoys picked up North Atlantic right whales in NY Bight yesterday. This triggers slow zones, crucial to protect the whales. Last week in this area, NOAAFish_NEFSC saw a mother (Accordion, #4150) with her first calf. 🔗bit.ly/4aQNo7v

For 10 years, @WCSOcean Giants has studied whales in the NY Bight. Our team gathers data that is used to better protect these animals. These shots are from a recent ‘close approach’ by a curious humpback that circled & remained close to the boat for some time. #WorldWhaleDay

Witnessing this pair made for an amazing day on the water back in June!

Life is booming in the New York Bight. The WCS Ocean Giants team saw fin whales, humpbacks, and common dolphins all feeding together. At the surface, two different pectoral fins emerged, a side-lunging fin whale and a fin-slapping humpback. A feeding frenzy on a fave prey type.