First Right Whales of the 2020 Season Have Arrived in Cape Cod Bay

First Right Whales of the 2020 Season Have Arrived in Cape Cod Bay

On Monday, January 6, the Center for Coastal Studies (CCS) aerial surveillance team spotted two endangered North Atlantic right whales in Cape Cod Bay, the first right whale sightings in the bay in 2020. The unique markings on the whales’ bodies enabled the CCS team...

Two more rare right whale calves spotted in Cape Cod Bay

On Thursday, April 11 the Center for Coastal Studies right whale aerial survey team spotted two more mom/calf pairs in Cape Cod Bay, bringing the number of calves observed off Cape Cod this season to three. The mothers have been identified as EgNo 4180  and EgNo 3317....

CCS spots their first 2019 right whale calf in Cape Cod Bay

On Sunday, April 7 the Center for Coastal Studies right whale aerial survey team spotted their first right whale calf of the year in Cape Cod Bay. This sighting heralds the arrival of the 2019 calves to their feeding grounds here in the northeast. The calf, which was...

Rare North Atlantic right whales return to Cape Cod Bay

On Tuesday, December 11 the Center for Coastal Studies’ aerial surveillance team spotted seven critically endangered North Atlantic right whales in Cape Cod Bay, the first confirmed sighting of the species in the Bay this season. Among the whales photographed during...

Rare North Atlantic right whales return to Cape Cod Bay

Provincetown, MA – On Tuesday, January 16 the Center for Coastal Studies’ aerial survey team took off from Provincetown airport for the first right whale surveillance flight of the 2018 season; within hours they had spotted 14 of the critically endangered...