{"id":572657,"date":"2026-04-08T22:39:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T22:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/572657\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T22:39:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T22:39:08","slug":"dolphin-watch-sighting-season-has-begun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/572657\/","title":{"rendered":"Dolphin Watch Sighting Season has Begun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"byline\">By Krista Pfunder<\/p>\n<p>When dolphins move northward of Lower Bay, it\u2019s the start of dolphin sighting season, according to the Chesapeake DolphinWatch app, developed by a team at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science\u2019s (UMCES) Chesapeake Biological Laboratory.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Reports on the app from the Choptank River and Middle Bay say dolphins are now on the move.<\/p>\n<p>The app\u2014created in 2017\u2014has more than 14,000 registered users. Members of the community can join for free and help UMCES scientists learn more about Chesapeake Bay bottlenose dolphins.<\/p>\n<p>Registered app users can report dolphin sightings in real time. The observation network then shares information about\u00a0dolphin distribution on the app.<\/p>\n<p>To start logging sightings, sign up and log into the app via iPhone, Android or <a href=\"https:\/\/chesapeakedolphinwatch.org\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ChesapeakeDolphinWatch.org<\/a>. Stay tuned over the next few months as UMCES makes changes to the app to improve the viewing experience and data retrieval procedures.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Krista Pfunder When dolphins move northward of Lower Bay, it\u2019s the start of dolphin sighting season, according&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":572658,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[79,201],"class_list":["post-572657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=572657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572657\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/572658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=572657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=572657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}