Happywhale - Common Minke Whale in North Atlantic Ocean

Marine mammals abundance and distribution

Happywhale.com is a resource to help you know whales as individuals, and to benefit conservation science with rich data about individual whales. Original provider: Happywhale Dataset credits: Happywhale and contributors Supplemental information: Sightings and images were submitted to Happywhale by contributors. A portion of the Happywhale data were transferred to OBIS-SEAMAP upon the agreement between Happywhale and OBIS-SEAMAP. There may be duplicate records among Happywhale datasets and other OBIS-SEAMAP datasets. The precision of date/time vary per record. Some records have date accuracy up to year only. This dataset includes sightings and photos from the following 24 contributors in alphabetic order: Allison Smith; Andrew Thompson; bev dant; Caitlin Fitzmaurice; Chloé Chartrand; Chris Mahy; Ed John; Félix Bélanger; Hans Verdaat; Lior Behar; Marilia Olio; Mark OBrien; Michael John Stevenson; Mitch Doucet; Mona Wong; MS Fridtjof Nansen; Rory Jackson West Cork Ocean Tours; Sarah Robinson; Sara Jenner; Serguei Ponomarenko; S. Helgu; Simon villeneuve; Ted Cheeseman; Theo Vickers

Data and resources

Additional information

Temporal extent	2006-08-21 – 2024-08-01
Date (creation)	2023-03-17
Date (publication)	2023-03-17
Status	onGoing
Update frequency	asNeeded
Metadata language	en
License	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
Source metadata	ISO 19115 XML
Last updated	2026-11-04
Created	2026-11-04
API	package_show