Happywhale - Killer 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 28 contributors in alphabetic order: Adrian Boyle; Amy Tudor; Andrew Peacock; Antoine Viot; Boo Borsberry-Woods; Christine Corke; Conor Ryan; De Wulf Maurina (maluga); Evelin Breuers; Hans Verdaat; Javier Cotin; Johnny Giese; Kimberly Nesbitt; Lucile Sachot; Marilia Olio; Michael Jackson; Mitch Doucet; MS Fridtjof Nansen; Paolo Bellezze; Philip Precey; Phil Sykes; Pia Lange; Raghavan Nair; S. Helgu; Steph & Oli Prince; Tara Byrne; Thomas Kohn; Tim Martin

Data and resources

Additional information

Temporal extent	2008-06-05 – 2025-01-25
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