Photographs Wanted!
The CIBW Photo-ID Project wants your photos! We know that there are many talented photographers in the area and we are hoping that you are willing to share your quality photos to help contribute to better understand the life histories of Cook Inlet beluga whales.
When you submit a quality photo that we can match to our existing catalog you help add another piece to the beluga puzzle. We will do our best to follow up with you about who is in the photo and what we know about them. You will also be acknowledged in all of our reports that your data is used in.
The photo to the right was shared with the Photo-ID Project by long time colaborator Chris Garner with JBER. This photo was taken in September 2017 in Knik Arm. This whale is named Dimples and the photo is taken of her left-side. Dimples gets her name from her unique dimpled mark that she has. We believe Dimples is a female and presumed mother based on photographs taken with accompanying calves. Dimples has been photographed by the photo-id team nearly every year since 2005 when the project began.
Thank you Chris Garner for your continued contributions of beautiful whale photographs. We always look forward to seeing them.
Share your photos and we will share what we know!