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awstevenson uploaded a new video
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This is the final third of the three-part recording of a humpback whale singing out on the Challenger Banks fifteen miles offshore Bermuda.
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awstevenson uploaded a new video
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This is the second part of the beautiful whale song we heard on Challenger Bank at the end of April 2009. I believe there are some whales that sing...
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This is the second part of the beautiful whale song we heard on Challenger Bank at the end of April 2009. I believe there are some whales that sing more beautifully than others and this recording struck us as being particularly good. We hear the humpbacks singing pretty consistently but it seems they sing more at night. When we have stayed out at Challenger Bank (15 miles offshore) overnight we hear the whales singing consistently. When daybreak arrives the singing stops although it may pick up at the end of the day. Are the whales singing to the whales still migrating north? I'm sure the other whales would recognize the 'voice' of a singer and may come to a known singer. Recently NOAA satellite tagged six whales, five of them females with calves. One of them was heading by Bermuda, about 125 miles to our west when it stopped for some days and then made a beeline towards Bermuda but passed slightly to our north. Was that a reaction to hearing the song of a humpback on a seamount?
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awstevenson uploaded a new video
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This is the first part of a recording I made late April on Challenger Banks, fifteen miles offshore Bermuda. I believe this is one of the most beau...
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This is the first part of a recording I made late April on Challenger Banks, fifteen miles offshore Bermuda. I believe this is one of the most beautiful recordings I have of a humpback whale, the sounds are very clear. We heard this whale through the hull of a 35-foot trawler with the engine idling, gear in neutral. The recording is with the engine off, the hydrophone about 30 feet down in 170 feet of water. We hear the humpbacks singing often in this exact location, especially at night when the singing seems to be non-stop. During the day the singing is sporadic but always there are whales milling around the singer. This to me does not seem like the breeding behaviour of humpback singing in the Caribbean or Hawaii and I wonder, despite the disbelief of marine scientists, whether this whale song attracts other whales to the singer. I have often witnessed humpbacks aggregating on the Challenger Bank with as many as 14 whales in close formation milling around for some hours. The behaviour is not the aggressive behaviour seen in the breeding grounds. I have also witnessed large groups of humpbacks move on a steady course and speed (5 knots) in a north east direction and again, this flies in the face of conventional wisdom, but I wonder if the whales have aggregated into large protective groups to complete the migration up north and to run the gauntlet of orcas somewhere between here and their feeding grounds. Although orca attacks have rarely been witnessed on humpbacks in the North Atlantic, about a third of this population of humpbacks have orca scars on their flukes, dorsals and pectoral fins.
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awstevenson uploaded a new video
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Here is a video of a mother and calf and escort on Challenger Bank , fifteen miles off Bermuda, on the 25th of April 2009.
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awstevenson uploaded a new video
(5 months ago)
This 'fly by' was taken in Bermuda in April 2007. With a 120 degree wide angle lens, the whale is a lot closer than it appears- not even two feet a...
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This 'fly by' was taken in Bermuda in April 2007. With a 120 degree wide angle lens, the whale is a lot closer than it appears- not even two feet away. Again, it demonstrates how gentle they are with us, despite what we have done to them over the centuries.
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Thank you so much for sharing them.
Love & hugs
Mary :)
xoxoxo
Where can I buy it on dvd?
The link to your website doesn't work for me..