Ocean wanderers : Extralimital encounters with bowhead whales (Balaena mysticetus) in temperate European shallow waters

• Published in: Aquatic Mammals
• Main Authors: de Boer, Marijke N., Jones, Duncan, Jones, Hannah
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: Balaena mysticetus; Bowhead whale; Feeding behaviour; Migration; Shallow waters; Vagrancy; Arctic; Cornwall; Shallow Bay; bowhead whale
• Online Access: https://research.wur.nl/en/publications/ocean-wanderers-extralimital-encounters-with-bowhead-whales-balae; https://doi.org/10.1578/AM.43.3.2017.279

Reports of bowhead whales (Balaena mysticetus) outside the Arctic Circle are scarce. On 15 May 2016, a juvenile bowhead whale was recorded in shallow water in Mount's Bay (Cornwall, UK) much further south than the species' normal dis- tribution. Fifteen months earlier, another such sightin...