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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Reports over time
All datesSelect a year, then a month. Counts describe published reports; one animal may appear in several reports.
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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/304255073
Observation: Direct original iNaturalist page and photograph reviewed. One live grey seal is visible.
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Date:Reported: Unidentified https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/35516202
Observation: Direct original iNaturalist page and photograph reviewed. One live harbor seal is visible.
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Date:Reported: Unidentified https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/29881961
Observation: Direct original iNaturalist page and photograph reviewed. One live harbor seal is visible in surf.
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Date:Reported: Unidentified https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/261669224
Observation: Direct original iNaturalist page and photograph reviewed. One very distant seal head is visible; visual certainty is limited.
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Date:Reported: Unidentified https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/384002694
Observation: Direct original iNaturalist page and photograph reviewed. One live harbor seal is visible. The page title and profile attribution differ; the source attribution is preserved without resolving that discrepancy.
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Date:Reported: Unidentified https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/270512043
Observation: Direct original iNaturalist page and photograph reviewed. One grey seal is lying on sand with visible red abrasions around the head and neck and closed eyes. The source does not establish whether the animal was alive or dead, and no cause is inferred.
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Date:Reported: Unidentified https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/37615
Observation: Direct original iNaturalist page and photograph reviewed. A group of harbor seals is hauled out on offshore rocks; exact count remains unset.
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Date:Reported: Unidentified https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/13441345; https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/27080199; https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/33587899
Observation: Direct original iNaturalist pages and photographs reviewed. Three observers' records fall on the same date and within roughly 150 m in Gloucester, with very similar views of one harbor seal in water; consolidated as one encounter. One source page shows a clock in another timezone, so no observation time is preserved.