Whale Songs Are Heard For First Time Around New York City Waters (Liberty: living)

[dokorek]

For the first time in waters surrounding New York City, the beckoning calls of endangered fin, humpback and North Atlantic right whales have been recorded, according to experts from the Bioacoustics Research Program at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC).

This is an exciting time for New Yorkers. Just think, just miles from the Statue of Liberty, the Empire State Building, Carnegie Hall and Times Square, the great whales are singing," says Chris Clark, the Director of the Bioacoustics Research Program at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. "These are some of the largest and rarest animals on this planet trying to make a living just a few miles from New York's shores. It just goes to show us that there are many important and wonderful discoveries to be made about the living world right here, right in our back yards."


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[Joe Bama!]

Thats not necessarily a good thing, it might mean that they are lost and thats how whales end up getting beached.

[Ellie C.]

They were always there; it's part of their normal migration. Occasionally one goes off course up the Hudson and it makes the news. This made the news because they made the recordings.

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[sandinmyshoes]

there have been whales around here forever.there was a whale many years back who used to swim along rockaways beaches.it is true he might have been lost. whales have died and washed up on shore over the last 40 years.so,...its good that were listening now.