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Drone captures rare video of 'magical moment' whale birth
A humpback whale has been recorded giving birth to her calf in what is believed to be the first whale birth recorded filmed by a drone.
The sighting occurred on Tuesday afternoon at Kingscliff on the New South Wales North Coast.
The video footage is expected to be peer reviewed and published, contributing to whale research.
A drone operator has captured a rare sighting of a humpback whale giving birth on the New South Wales coast.
Drone pilot Alex Forrest is one of just four people to capture a whale giving birth, and the first to do so with a drone.
Rare moment humpback whale gives birth captured by drone off Australian coast – video
A drone pilot has captured what is believed to be only the fourth complete humpback whale birth ever recorded on film anywhere in the world, and the first ever documented by drone. While conducting aerial observations of migrating humpback whales off the NSW north coast for the Organisation for the Rescue and Research of Cetaceans in Australia (Orrca), Alexander Forrest witnessed an adult female give birth in calm sea conditions, capturing the newborn calf's first moments of life, including its first breath and union with its mother
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First drone footage of a humpback birth shows mum and bub thriving
The gender is not clear, but we do know the baby was born about 1pm somewhere off the coast of northern NSW, weighing a healthy 1.5 tonnes or so.
In what is thought to be a world first, a wildlife photographer has captured the birth of a humpback whale using a drone.
Alexander Forrest, a drone operator who works with ORRCA – the Organisation for the Rescue and Research of Cetaceans in Australia – was watching the whale migration from above on Monday when he noticed a plume of blood rise in the water next to a whale that was alone there.
Moments later the calf appeared, and was soon hoisted to the ocean’s surface to aid it as it takes its first breaths.
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