{"id":804869,"date":"2026-08-06T18:22:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T18:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/804869\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T18:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T18:22:09","slug":"surge-in-nearshore-humpback-whales-reported-off-maine-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/804869\/","title":{"rendered":"Surge in nearshore humpback whales reported off Maine coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Humpback whales are making more appearances along the Maine coast.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the College of the Atlantic say they&#8217;ve seen a surge in nearshore humpback whale sightings, likely because more food is available.<\/p>\n<p>Boaters are reminded to stay at least 100 yards away from humpback whales to avoid disturbing the animals.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers also encourage anyone who safely photographs a whale to share those images to help identify and track the animals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Humpback whales are making more appearances along the Maine coast. Researchers at the College of the Atlantic say&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":804870,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[79,201],"class_list":["post-804869","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\/804869","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=804869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/804870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=804869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=804869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=804869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}