A better knowledge of the animals that we watch, helps us to protect them, but also to understand the environment in which they live and that they divide with other species like the homo sapiens, the latter also being of certain interest!
This logic, associated with various requests for collaboration in the field of photo identification, justifies the creation of this photograph databank. It is not a question of creating a new catalogue, but opening a simple tool to all: curious, whale watchers, students, researchers… where it will be possible to download and upload photos, as well to include them in already existing catalogues, the reference in this field being the catalogue created by IFAW, Dr. Jonathan Gordon and Dra Lisa Steiner, in the Azores in 1987.
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List of 2025's Photo ID
Photo ID : Physeter macrocephalus

- Species :
Physeter macrocephalus
Sperm whale - GPS : 38°-20'-27"N-28°-14'-13"W
- Date : 07.18.2025 at 11h00
- Photographer : Inês Clara
- Trip Number :
- Heading : 028º
- Behaviour : foraging
- Number of animals : 1
- Group composition :
- Observations :
Photo ID : Physeter macrocephalus

- Species :
Physeter macrocephalus
Sperm whale - GPS : 38°-20'-24"N-28°-14'-57"W
- Date : 07.18.2025 at 10h50
- Photographer : Inês Clara
- Trip Number :
- Heading : 108º
- Behaviour : foraging
- Number of animals : 1
- Group composition :
- Observations :
Photo ID : Physeter macrocephalus

- Species :
Physeter macrocephalus
Sperm whale - GPS : 38°-20'-45"N-28°-12'-36"W
- Date : 07.17.2025 at 18h13
- Photographer : Inês Clara
- Trip Number :
- Heading : 054º
- Behaviour : foraging
- Number of animals : 1
- Group composition :
- Observations :
Photo ID : Physeter macrocephalus

- Species :
Physeter macrocephalus
Sperm whale - GPS : 38°-22'-59"N-28°-10'-31"W
- Date : 07.16.2025 at 16h20
- Photographer : Inês Clara
- Trip Number :
- Heading : 254º
- Behaviour : foraging
- Number of animals : 1
- Group composition :
- Observations :
Photo ID : Physeter macrocephalus

- Species :
Physeter macrocephalus
Sperm whale - GPS : 0°-0'-0"N-0°-0'-0"W
- Date : 07.16.2025 at 11h11
- Photographer : Inês Clara
- Trip Number :
- Heading :
- Behaviour : foraging
- Number of animals : 1
- Group composition :
- Observations :
Photo ID : Physeter macrocephalus

- Species :
Physeter macrocephalus
Sperm whale - GPS : 38°-20'-53"N-28°-6'-39"W
- Date : 07.13.2025 at 19h45
- Photographer : Inês Clara
- Trip Number :
- Heading : 326º
- Behaviour : foraging
- Number of animals : 2
- Group composition :
- Observations :
Photo ID : Physeter macrocephalus

- Species :
Physeter macrocephalus
Sperm whale - GPS : 38°-20'-53"N-28°-6'-39"W
- Date : 07.13.2025 at 19h43
- Photographer : Inês Clara
- Trip Number :
- Heading : 326º
- Behaviour : foraging
- Number of animals : 2
- Group composition :
- Observations :
Photo ID : Physeter macrocephalus

- Species :
Physeter macrocephalus
Sperm whale - GPS : 38°-22'-33"N-28°-10'-33"W
- Date : 07.13.2025 at 15h01
- Photographer : Inês Clara
- Trip Number :
- Heading : 071º
- Behaviour : foraging
- Number of animals : 2
- Group composition :
- Observations :
Photo ID : Physeter macrocephalus

- Species :
Physeter macrocephalus
Sperm whale - GPS : 38°-22'-33"N-28°-10'-33"W
- Date : 07.13.2025 at 15h01
- Photographer : Inês Clara
- Trip Number :
- Heading : 071º
- Behaviour : foraging
- Number of animals : 2
- Group composition :
- Observations :
Photo ID : Physeter macrocephalus

- Species :
Physeter macrocephalus
Sperm whale - GPS : 38°-22'-2"N-28°-16'-17"W
- Date : 07.13.2025 at 12h32
- Photographer : Inês Clara
- Trip Number :
- Heading : 086º
- Behaviour : foraging
- Number of animals : 1
- Group composition :
- Observations :
Photo ID : Physeter macrocephalus

- Species :
Physeter macrocephalus
Sperm whale - GPS : 38°-22'-47"N-28°-17'-5"W
- Date : 07.13.2025 at 11h59
- Photographer : Inês Clara
- Trip Number :
- Heading : 110º
- Behaviour : foraging
- Number of animals : 1
- Group composition :
- Observations :
Photo ID : Physeter macrocephalus

- Species :
Physeter macrocephalus
Sperm whale - GPS : 38°-23'-50"N-28°-20'-58"W
- Date : 07.11.2025 at 15h03
- Photographer : Inês Clara
- Trip Number :
- Heading : 070º
- Behaviour : foraging
- Number of animals : 1
- Group composition :
- Observations :
Photo ID : Physeter macrocephalus

- Species :
Physeter macrocephalus
Sperm whale - GPS : 38°-23'-1"N-28°-23'-30"W
- Date : 07.11.2025 at 10h47
- Photographer : Inês Clara
- Trip Number :
- Heading : 356º
- Behaviour : foraging
- Number of animals : 1
- Group composition :
- Observations :
Photo ID : Physeter macrocephalus

- Species :
Physeter macrocephalus
Sperm whale - GPS : 38°-23'-15"N-28°-21'-36"W
- Date : 07.11.2025 at 10h17
- Photographer : Inês Clara
- Trip Number :
- Heading : 288º
- Behaviour : foraging
- Number of animals : 1
- Group composition :
- Observations :
Photo ID : Physeter macrocephalus

- Species :
Physeter macrocephalus
Sperm whale - GPS : 0°-0'-0"N-0°-0'-0"W
- Date : 07.09.2025 at 16h39
- Photographer : Filipa Gonçalves
- Trip Number :
- Heading :
- Behaviour : foraging
- Number of animals : 1
- Group composition :
- Observations :
Photo ID : Physeter macrocephalus

- Species :
Physeter macrocephalus
Sperm whale - GPS : 38°-19'-17"N-28°-16'-17"W
- Date : 07.03.2025 at 10h08
- Photographer : Inês Clara
- Trip Number :
- Heading : 293º
- Behaviour : foraging
- Number of animals : 1
- Group composition :
- Observations :
Photo ID : Physeter macrocephalus

- Species :
Physeter macrocephalus
Sperm whale - GPS : 0°-0'-0"N-0°-0'-0"W
- Date : 07.02.2025 at 10h01
- Photographer : Filipa Gonçalves
- Trip Number :
- Heading :
- Behaviour : foraging
- Number of animals : 1
- Group composition :
- Observations :
Photo ID : Physeter macrocephalus

- Species :
Physeter macrocephalus
Sperm whale - GPS : 38°-21'-38"N-28°-13'-35"W
- Date : 07.01.2025 at 09h53
- Photographer : Inês Clara
- Trip Number :
- Heading : 077º
- Behaviour : foraging
- Number of animals : 1
- Group composition :
- Observations :
Photo ID : Physeter macrocephalus

- Species :
Physeter macrocephalus
Sperm whale - GPS : 38°-21'-16"N-28°-14'-55"W
- Date : 07.01.2025 at 09h47
- Photographer : Inês Clara
- Trip Number :
- Heading : 070º
- Behaviour : foraging
- Number of animals : 1
- Group composition :
- Observations :
Photo ID : Physeter macrocephalus

- Species :
Physeter macrocephalus
Sperm whale - GPS : 0°-0'-0"N-0°-0'-0"W
- Date : 06.30.2025 at 16h09
- Photographer : Filipa Gonçalves
- Trip Number :
- Heading :
- Behaviour : foraging
- Number of animals : 1
- Group composition :
- Observations :