A bird watcher accidentally spotted a ten-meter-long whale in the Baltic Sea.
This requires a lot of luck, because the animals are rarely seen.
Eckernförde Bay - An ornithologist usually examines birds, but a bird watcher of all people recently discovered a huge whale in the Baltic Sea, as reported by the
Schleswig-Holstein daily newspaper
(shz.de)
.
The man happened to observe with his telescope how a ten-meter-long whale was in the Eckernförde Bay in Schleswig-Holstein.
In order for mna to witness this extremely rare sight, “real luck” is
required
, as Dagmar Strauss, head of the
Naturschutzbund Deutschland (Nabu)
state office for porpoise protection,
said
in an interview with
shz.de
Because the animal was about 300 meters away from the observer and was very easily recognizable.
However, the bird watcher could not tell what kind of whale it was.
Fin whale in the Baltic Sea: last sighted in 2015
His descriptions lead the expert to suspect that it was a fin whale.
However, it is also possible that a humpback whale could be seen.
According to
shz.de
, the Danish police
discovered a fin whale off Kollund
about six years ago
.
He had also been seen in the Flensburg Fjord.
According to information from
Nabu,
a fin whale last appeared in Eckernförde Bay in
2015
.
Fin
whales are an endangered species. According to
prowildlife.de
, with a maximum length of 27 meters and a weight of up to 80 tons, they are the second largest animal on our planet after the blue whale.
According to
wwf.de,
humpback whales can reach
a height of up to 13 meters and a body weight of around 30 tons.
The expert suspects that the whale was probably hungry, swarms of herring followed and therefore ended up in the bay.
According to research by
shz.de
, the observation of fin whales is difficult due to their brief appearance.
In the Baltic Sea, it is also difficult for the whales to stay long because they need large amounts of fish for food, which they cannot find in sufficient quantities in the Baltic Sea.
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