Whale News!
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Meet the Mother/Calf pairs of the 2025-26 North Atlantic Right Whale Calving Season!
#1: Champagne On November 28, 2025, the first mother calf pair spotted for the 2025-26 North Atlantic Right Whale Calving Season was Champagne and her calf in the waters 7 miles off Ocean Isles Beach, North Carolina! Get to Know Champagne! Champagne was born in 2009 and is 17 years old. This is her second
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Right Whale Week 2025: Where to Go!
Right Whale Week 2025! October 24 – November 2, 2025 Organized by the Amelia Island Whale Ambassadors Celebrate the return of the critically endangered North Atlantic right whales to their winter calving grounds, right here off Amelia Island! Local businesses are participating in Right Whale Week 2025 to help promote awareness of the return of
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Scientist on Vacation- AIS and Lighthouses
Scott and Phyllis Rowley traveled to New England this summer to investigate the history of whale oil used in our Amelia Island lighthouse. During a visit to the Woods Island Lighthouse in Maine and Sapelo Island Lighthouse in Georgia, Scott discovered AIS StationKeepers installed in their lighthouse towers. He was able to share some of
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Participate in Right Whale Week 2025!
Right Whale Week 2025 October 24, 2025 – November 2, 2025 Organized by the Amelia Island Whale Ambassadors Celebrate the return of the critically endangered North Atlantic right whales to their winter calving grounds, right here off Amelia Island! We are asking local businesses for their participation in Right Whale Week to help promote awareness
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Amelia Island Whale Ambassadors Wins Most Unique Float in 2025 Shrimp Festival Parade!
2025 Shrimp Festival Kick-off The annual Shrimp Festival in Fernandina Beach celebrated their 60th year with the theme, “Diamonds are a Shrimp’s Best Friend!” On May 1st, the Amelia Island Whale Ambassadors and their 30 foot whale arrived all dolled up in diamonds, ready to walk the parade route! A 30 foot whale swimming down
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Right Whale Baby Shower and Celebration 2025!
Who doesn’t love a baby shower? Especially for one of the world’s BIGGEST babies!?! The Amelia Island Whale Ambassadors celebrated the season’s North Atlantic right whale babies at our Right Whale Baby Shower and Celebration on April 10, 2025 at the Florida House Inn. Each year, North Atlantic right whales migrate south to the warmer
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2025 Amelia Island Whale Ambassadors Annual Meeting: “Change the Story”
The Amelia Island Whale Ambassadors met on February 8 at Story and Song Bookstore and Bistro in Fernandina Beach to conduct their annual meeting. The annual meeting is an excellent time to get information on how the calving season is going for the North Atlantic right whale. Their calving season is from November 15-April 15
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Right Whale Mosaic on the Beach on Amelia Island
When you think about ways to engage the community in a cause that is near and dear to your heart, what better way than to use art? And even better, using art that the public can be involved in creating! On January 25, 2025, Laurie Holton led a group of whale enthusiasts in an art
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Please Join Us At Our Annual Right Whale Baby Shower!
Did you see the whales? Dear Nature Lover, Those of us around Amelia Island are truly winners as we all live in an ecosystem of wildlife ranging from dolphins, to manatees, to eagles, to owls, to alligators, to sea birds to dragon flies, and so much more. In addition to our daily nature encounters, annually
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2024-25 Calving Season Updates!
The 2024-25 North Atlantic right whale calving season is upon us! November through April every year brings the North Atlantic right whale south to their calving grounds. Amelia Island lies at the center of this area and we are always looking forward to their arrival each year! The first mother-calf pair has been spotted! We
