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 : 0°-0'-0"N-0°-0'-0"W
- Date : 06.30.2025 at 15h20
- 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 : 0°-0'-0"N-0°-0'-0"W
- Date : 06.30.2025 at 15h05
- 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 : 0°-0'-0"N-0°-0'-0"W
- Date : 06.28.2025 at 11h29
- 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°-17'-11"N-28°-19'-15"W
- Date : 06.26.2025 at 16h05
- Photographer : Inês Clara
- Trip Number :
- Heading : 011º
- Behaviour : foraging
- Number of animals : 1
- Group composition :
- Observations :
Photo ID : Physeter macrocephalus

- Species :
Physeter macrocephalus
Sperm whale - GPS : 38°-23'-34"N-28°-8'-37"W
- Date : 06.24.2025 at 16h57
- Photographer : Inês Clara
- Trip Number :
- Heading : 075º
- Behaviour : foraging
- Number of animals : 1
- Group composition :
- Observations :
Photo ID : Physeter macrocephalus

- Species :
Physeter macrocephalus
Sperm whale - GPS : 38°-23'-50"N-28°-17'-49"W
- Date : 06.24.2025 at 16h10
- 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'-37"N-28°-17'-60"W
- Date : 06.24.2025 at 16h05
- Photographer : Inês Clara
- Trip Number :
- Heading : 042º
- 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 : 06.24.2025 at 16h05
- 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°-22'-26"N-28°-10'-41"W
- Date : 06.24.2025 at 10h05
- Photographer : Inês Clara
- Trip Number :
- Heading : 242º
- Behaviour : foraging
- Number of animals : 1
- Group composition :
- Observations :
Photo ID : Physeter macrocephalus

- Species :
Physeter macrocephalus
Sperm whale - GPS : 38°-16'-19"N-28°-20'-7"W
- Date : 06.23.2025 at 11h15
- Photographer : Inês Clara
- Trip Number :
- Heading : 196º
- Behaviour : foraging
- Number of animals : 1
- Group composition :
- Observations :
Photo ID : Physeter macrocephalus

- Species :
Physeter macrocephalus
Sperm whale - GPS : 38°-16'-44"N-28°-19'-60"W
- Date : 06.23.2025 at 11h05
- Photographer : Inês Clara
- Trip Number :
- Heading : 214º
- 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 : 06.22.2025 at 11h25
- 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 : 0°-0'-0"N-0°-0'-0"W
- Date : 06.22.2025 at 10h47
- 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'-29"N-28°-13'-36"W
- Date : 06.21.2025 at 15h19
- Photographer : Inês Clara
- Trip Number :
- Heading : 231º
- Behaviour : foraging
- Number of animals : 1
- Group composition :
- Observations :
Photo ID : Physeter macrocephalus

- Species :
Physeter macrocephalus
Sperm whale - GPS : 38°-21'-52"N-28°-12'-18"W
- Date : 06.21.2025 at 15h06
- Photographer : Inês Clara
- Trip Number :
- Heading : 303º
- Behaviour : foraging
- Number of animals : 1
- Group composition :
- Observations :
Photo ID : Physeter macrocephalus

- Species :
Physeter macrocephalus
Sperm whale - GPS : 38°-19'-55"N-28°-14'-54"W
- Date : 06.21.2025 at 10h16
- Photographer : Inês Clara
- Trip Number :
- Heading : 265º
- 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 : 06.20.2025 at 16h17
- 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 : 0°-0'-0"N-0°-0'-0"W
- Date : 06.20.2025 at 16h05
- 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 : 0°-0'-0"N-0°-0'-0"W
- Date : 06.17.2025 at 11h22
- 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 : 0°-0'-0"N-0°-0'-0"W
- Date : 06.16.2025 at 15h22
- Photographer : Filipa Gonçalves
- Trip Number :
- Heading :
- Behaviour : foraging
- Number of animals : 1
- Group composition :
- Observations :