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EMAIL ADDRESS: flukematcher@gmail.com

PURPOSE OF THE SITE:
Gale McCullough works as a flukematcher for Allied Whale. They house the catalog and keep record of all individual humpbacks sighted in the North Atlantic. Humpback whales can be identified by the various black and white patterns on the underside of their flukes.



Over a year ago I started the humpback flukes group in hopes of creating a citizen science effort. Often people go whale watching, take excellent fluke photo which would prove very useful for identification but are unaware of the photo's importance, and it ends up buried in their vacation album.

Very few of the photos in this account are mine. Many people have contributed their humpback whale fluke photographs humpback flukes group. This site "Flukematcher" is a collection of all the Matched flukes from the North Atlantic contributed to that group. I am hoping to develop an online "citizen scientists" catalog that can be shared with other whale enthusiasts. Perhaps you will be able to use it to identify a whale you have photographed.

All photos have been linked to the original photographer who are so generously willing to contribute to this effort.



Three of us administer flickr site:

Gulf of Maine and Caribbean:
Gulf of Maine and Caribbean



Deb Young is in charge of Newfoundland/ Eastern Canada









My contacts below are all contributors to this site.