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Humpback
Whale Identification Photos
Humpback Whale's flukes are ranked
by type. Type 1 means that the whale's tail is mostly white in color,
type 5 means that the whale's tail is mostly black in color, and type 3
means that the tail is almost half white and half black. Below are ID photos
that I've taken over my years of whale watching.
Type
1 | Type 2
| Type 3 | Type
4 | Type 5
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Type
1
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Alpaca
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Dynamite
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Fan
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Filament
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Flask
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Littlespot
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Trough
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Type
2
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Alphorn
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Cirri
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Evolution
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Freckles
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Gizmo
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Hornbill
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Molson
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Newton
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Pinball
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Quote
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Regulus
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Thimble
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Upsilon
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Venom
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Zipline
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Obelus
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Quote 08 X
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Chickadee
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EtchaSketch
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Ballet
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Cartwheel
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Type
3
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Anchor
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Clamp
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Crown
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Echo
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Freefall
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Grommet
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I.T.
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Komodo
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Mantis
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Pele
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Pepper
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Pinch
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Scylla
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Spinnaker
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Springboard
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Tectonic
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Victim
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Zio
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Waffle
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Badminton
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Type
4
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Canine
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Columbia
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Compass
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Hancock
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Kansas
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Music
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Nile
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Owl
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Partition
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Pixar
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Rainforest
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Reaper
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Reflection
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Satula
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Solas
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Spoon
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Tornado
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Treasurehunt
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Zeppelin
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Daffodil
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Mahjong
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Tornado 08 X
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Bayou
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Whirlwind
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Summit
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Flicker
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Type
5
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Crook
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Hat Trick
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Kohoutek
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P.D.
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Perseid
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Repeat
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Rouge
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Scratch
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Tracer
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Tulip
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Wy
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Zap
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Luping
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Smidgen
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Literal
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Pictured Above
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One of my favorite
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whales, this is Hat-trick
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who has a type 5 fluke
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meaning almost all black.
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9/26/04
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