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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13 March—11 December
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All placesMarkers 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.
26 of 28 reports mapped · 13 places
New England Six-state outline
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Mapped places North to south
- Downeast Maine / Acadia4 reports
- Midcoast Maine1 report
- Casco Bay / Portland1 report
- Southern Maine2 reports
- Massachusetts North Shore1 report
- Boston Harbor / Charles River1 report
- Outer Cape Cod7 reports
- Plymouth / South Shore3 reports
- Lower Cape Cod2 reports
- South Cape / Buzzards Bay1 report
- Rhode Island coast1 report
- Connecticut coast1 report
- Nantucket1 report
Places without a map point · 2 reports
Broad or unreviewed public locations remain available in the archive.
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Reports over time
All datesSelect a year, then a month. Counts describe published reports; one animal may appear in several reports.
Months in 2011
Grouped by each record’s archive date. Approximate dates keep their original labels in the records below.
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Date:Reported: Unidentified https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/192218635
Observation: Direct original iNaturalist page and photograph reviewed. One live Grey Seal is swimming. An eBird checklist link is secondary context.
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Date:Reported: Unidentified https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/93355250
Observation: Direct original iNaturalist page and photograph reviewed. One live Grey Seal is swimming; the displayed clock is omitted because it is anomalous.
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Date:Reported: Unidentified https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/70131190
Observation: Direct original iNaturalist page and photograph reviewed. One live Grey Seal is swimming.
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Date:Reported: Unidentified https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/28454850
Observation: Direct original iNaturalist page and photograph reviewed. Several live seals are swimming; current Grey Seal identification is retained as probable and count is unset.
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Date:Reported: Unidentified https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/150541141
Observation: Direct original iNaturalist page and photograph reviewed. One live Grey Seal is swimming; public map is obscured and no subspecies claim is made.
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Date:Reported: Unidentified https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/179987789
Observation: Direct original iNaturalist page and photograph reviewed. Many seals are hauled out on sand by the water; this aggregate group cannot be counted reliably. Current identification is Harbor Seal while earlier Grey Seal IDs were withdrawn, so species remains uncertain.
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Date:Reported: Unidentified https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/192215232
Observation: Direct original iNaturalist page and photograph reviewed. One live Grey Seal is on a sandy shore and the source has an Alive annotation. An eBird checklist link in the notes is not an independent source. The source photograph is all rights reserved and no media is uploaded.