Reconciled photo identification of Antarctic and New Zealand blue whales identified during the Antarctic blue whale voyage 2013

Published: 2017-09-06

An excel spreadsheet detailing best left and/or right photos of individual Antarctic blue and New Zealand blue whales identified and photographed during the Antarctic blue whale voyage 2013. Also included are all the best photos as jpegs. Date is UTC and quality codes for each photo are 1=excellent, 2=good, 3=fair, 4=poor. For further detail please see references: Olson P.A., Ensor P., Olavarria C., Schmitt N., Childerhouse S., Constantine R., Miller B.S., Double M.C. (2013) New Zealand blue whales: initial photo-identification of a little-known population, International Whaling Commission Scientific Committee meeting (SC65a), Jeju Island, Korea, June 2013 SC/65a/SH12 Olson, P.A., Ensor, P., Schmitt, N., Olavarria, C. and Double, M.C. 2013 Photo-identification of Antarctic blue whales during the SORP Antarctic Blue Whale Voyage 2013. Paper submitted for consideration by the IWC Scientific Committee. SC/65a/SH11. See http://www.marinemammals.gov.au/sorp/antarctic-blue-whale-project for further detail regarding the Antarctic blue whale voyage.