16 April 2021

Grey Whale in Italy!

A Grey Whale seen in Italy (near Ponza Island, Tyrrhenian Sea)! The same of Israel in 2010, or another one that get lost from the Pacific routes, or maybe some Grey Whales still survive somewhere in the Atlantic? Or maybe an ID mistake?

Gray whale: an exceptional sighting in Italy

https://www.italy24news.com/News/19045.html

https://www.repubblica.it/green-and-blue/2021/04/15/news/ponza_avvistata_per_la_prima_volta_una_balena_grigia_in_italia-296524495/

https://www.leggo.it/animali/ponza_avvistata_balena_grigia_primo_caso_italia-5900536.html

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16 April 2021

Jon Hall

Amazing. It sure looks like one. And so close to shore! Are you going to look for it Mattia?

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- 16 April 2021
  
  Mattia from Italy
  
  It’s not so easy. Ponza Island has many private beaches and bays that you can reach only with a private boat. The public spaces are few. It’s the island where many VIPs from Rome have their villa. Let’s see if it remains in the area, but probably next week the whale will be miles and miles from there.
  
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16 April 2021

Simon Feys

There was one in Morocco a few weeks ago as well.

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- 16 April 2021
  
  Vladimir Dinets
  
  It is probably the same one that was seen in Morocco. People are trying to get high-rez photos to figure out if it’s the same one as in 2010. A different one was in Namibia a few years ago.
  
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18 April 2021

Luca

The whale has been refound in Sorrento, Campania.

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19 April 2021

Mattia from Italy

Now the whale is near Naples, in the “Baia archeological marine Park” area, where it approached a small boat and played with the people, like in Mexico.

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- 19 April 2021
  
  Mattia from Italy
  
  Here the video of the Grey Whale approaching and touching a boat (and people):
  
  https://www.3bmeteo.com/giornale-meteo/cronaca-diretta–balena-nel-golfo-di-napoli-nel-mare-di-pozzuoli–incredibile-incontro-ravvicinato–video-464580
  
  Experts say that it is a bit undernourished.
  
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23 April 2021

Mattia from Italy

Yesterday 22 April Wally (the Grey Whale now has a name…) was in front of Fiumicino, just north of Rome.

Here approaching, again, a rubber boat, with Coastal Guard people touching him:

https://www.quotidiano.net/cronaca/balena-fiumicino-1.6277120

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- 23 April 2021
  
  Mattia from Italy
  
  Experts and biologists of the Tethys Research Institute say that it is a young whale 7-8 meters long, age 6-7 months, just weaned, probably born somewhere in the Atlantic, and not the whale of 2010. It would be an incredible news!
  
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