Happywhale - Harbor Seal 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: HappywhaleDataset credits: Happywhale and contributorsSightings 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 4 contributors in alphabetic order: Caitlin Fitzmaurice; Per Nikolaj Bukh; Sarah Robinson; S. Helgu

Data and resources

Additional information

Temporal extent	2016-07-24 – 2024-07-20
Date (creation)	2024-02-15
Date (publication)	2024-02-15
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