seal.watch / new-england

New England · 2000—2026

Grey and harbour seals

Seals around New England.

Follow public seal observations from New England. Browse published records, explore the places and stories behind them, or share an encounter with the Seal Watch team.

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Markers group reports by reviewed names in their public locations, not exact sighting positions. Circle size reflects report counts. Select a place to filter the archive.

8 of 9 reports mapped · 6 places

New England Six-state outline

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Reported places Detail of outlined region

Downeast Maine / Acadia · 2 reports1Midcoast Maine · 1 report2Casco Bay / Portland · 2 reports3Southern Maine · 1 report4Lower Cape Cod · 1 report5South Cape / Buzzards Bay · 1 report6

Mapped places North to south

  1. Downeast Maine / Acadia2 reports
  2. Midcoast Maine1 report
  3. Casco Bay / Portland2 reports
  4. Southern Maine1 report
  5. Lower Cape Cod1 report
  6. South Cape / Buzzards Bay1 report
Places without a map point · 1 report

Broad or unreviewed public locations remain available in the archive.

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Reports over time

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Select a year, then a month. Counts describe published reports; one animal may appear in several reports.

  1. 12007
  2. 12009
  3. 12010
  4. 12011
  5. 22012
  6. 22013
  7. 22014
  8. 32017
  9. 22021
  10. 12023

Months in 2013

  1. 0Jan
  2. 0Feb
  3. 0Mar
  4. 0Apr
  5. 0May
  6. 0Jun
  7. 0Jul
  8. 2Aug
  9. 0Sep
  10. 0Oct
  11. 0Nov
  12. 0Dec

Grouped by each record’s archive date. Approximate dates keep their original labels in the records below.

  1. Portland Maine
    Unidentified https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/235461374

    Direct original iNaturalist page and photograph reviewed. One distant seal head is in water; source Harbor attribution is uncertain and the locality is broad/obscured. Kept separate from the same-day Chatham source because observer and state differ. Harbour seal · 1 seal

  2. Portland Harbour Maine
    Unidentified https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/251831118

    Direct original iNaturalist page and photograph reviewed. One seal is swimming; source attribution is Harbor Seal. Harbour seal · 1 seal