Monitoring of humpback whales in the Pender Bay, Kimberley region, Western Australia, Australia (2009 - 2012)

S Blake

doi:10.15468/qc8wf9

Monitoring of humpback whales in the Pender Bay, Kimberley region, Western Australia, Australia (2009 - 2012)

Citation

S Blake, I Dapson, O Auge, A J Bowles, E Marohn, L Malatzky & S S Granger (2011) Monitoring of humpback whales in the Pender Bay, Kimberley region, Western Australia. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia, 94: 393–405, 2011 https://doi.org/10.15468/qc8wf9 accessed via GBIF.org on 2024-12-14.

Description

Systematic shorebased surveys were undertaken in 2009 and 2010 from the cliff top on the southern part of Pender Bay, Dampier Peninsula, Kimberley region, WA from the Two Moons Whale and Marine Research Base. The humpback whales use Pender Bay for a variety of purposes including calving, breeding, feeding (inferred), resting and staging. The results show the peak of the whale season to be in August with a relatively sharp increase in whale numbers occurring from mid July through to early August with whale numbers slowly decreasing from the end of August through to mid November.

Data and publications sourced from https://catalogue.data.wa.gov.au/dataset/69de08ac-ec8a-4593-9045-880651d6fbb

Additional info

marine, harvested by OBIS

Taxonomic Coverages

Megaptera novaeangliae
common name: Humpback whale rank: species

Geographic Coverages

Pender Bay, Kimberleys, Australia

Bibliographic Citations

Contacts

S Blake
originator
Western Australian Marine Science Institution
35 Stirling Highway
Crawley
6009
Western Australia
AU
email: steve.blake@wamsi.org.au

S Blake
metadata author
Western Australian Marine Science Institution
35 Stirling Highway
Crawley
6009
Western Australia
AU
email: steve.blake@wamsi.org.au

OBIS Australia Node manager
publisher
position: OBIS Australia Data Manager
CSIRO National Collections and Marine Infrastructure Data Centre
Castray Esplande
Hobart
Tasmania
AU
email: obisau@csiro.au
homepage: http://www.obis.org.au

S Blake
administrative point of contact
Western Australian Marine Science Institution
35 Stirling Highway
Crawley
6009
Western Australia
AU
email: steve.blake@wamsi.org.au