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- Drone pilot Alexander Forrest captured the first aerial footage of a humpback whale calf birth off New South Wales, July, filming the mother’s red plume and the newborn’s first surfacing.
- Forrest alerted Organization for Rescue and Research of Cetaceans in Australia (ORCCA) Tanya Snowden and Dominic Cotter-Dephoff to document calf’s behavior.
- The birth, only the fourth recorded, occurred farther south than the migration of 50,000 whales along Australia’s east coast.
