The season’s first sighting of North Atlantic right whales on the Georgia coast "underscores the fact that Georgia and north Florida are the only known calving grounds for these endangered whales," says the Ga. Dept. of Natural Resources.
A Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission survey plane spotted a right whale mother and her new calf 16 miles off Cumberland Island Saturday.
"The mom, cataloged as right whale number 2145, is 24 years old and has been documented with five calves, the previous one in 2009," the department says.
Each winter, pregnant right whales and small numbers of non-breeding whales swim more than 1,000 miles from their feeding grounds off Canada and New England to the warmer waters of Georgia and northeastern Florida.…
A Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission survey plane spotted a right whale mother and her new calf 16 miles off Cumberland Island Saturday.
"The mom, cataloged as right whale number 2145, is 24 years old and has been documented with five calves, the previous one in 2009," the department says.
Each winter, pregnant right whales and small numbers of non-breeding whales swim more than 1,000 miles from their feeding grounds off Canada and New England to the warmer waters of Georgia and northeastern Florida.…
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