Hi, Thanks for all your mails ! We received many advices about the blue/fin whale identification, but many people asked for better pictures to make a good choice. At this step on 23 advices, 18% choosed pygmy blue whale, 60 % fin whale, 4% hybrid, 4% other (sei, bryde...), 14% impossible to choice. Most reasons for fin choice was white right jaw, for blue whale dorsal placement. 4 people declared themselves as blue whale field specialist (sri lanka and pacific) and 2 were sure for blue whale and 2 for fin whale... There are better pictures on this link (beware of color the photo were filtered) : http://nektos.net/?page_id=6 I hope we'll get this time a significative choice, or we'll have to call it the "flue" whale ;-) regards, On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 4:19 PM, fschnoller <fschnoller@planetenature.re>wrote:

Hi,

We recently observed what could be a fin or blue whale, can we get an advice from a specialist of these species ?

Photos and videos on : www.darewin.org

Obs was made 1 mille form the coast in qquite shalow waters (300 m), the whale was crusing south at 10 mph speed,

Thanks in advance,

Regards,

-- Fabrice Schnöller

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