{"id":236312,"date":"2026-01-09T16:32:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T16:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/236312\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T16:32:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T16:32:09","slug":"donegal-whale-in-extraordinary-sighting-in-us-coastal-waters-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/236312\/","title":{"rendered":"Donegal whale in &#8216;extraordinary&#8217; sighting in US coastal waters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Using photographs of the 2024 County Donegal sighting, experts at the New England Aquarium &#8211; which curates the North Atlantic Right Whale Photo ID catalogue &#8211; in the United States, have now photo-ID matched and identified the animal sighted in November 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">CCS researchers Ryan Schosberg and Annie Bartlett spotted the whale while conducting an aerial survey off the US coast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The first sighting of the year is always exciting, but we didn&#8217;t yet realise just how remarkable this one would turn out to be,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The distance between these sightings highlights both how far these animals are capable of travelling and how much we still have to learn about them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He added: &#8220;Findings like this highlight gaps in our understanding of right whale habitat use and indicate that these animals may range more widely than previously believed.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Using photographs of the 2024 County Donegal sighting, experts at the New England Aquarium &#8211; which curates the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":236313,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[61,60,82,263],"class_list":{"0":"post-236312","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}