Rare sight: Endangered whale swimming with calf near Cape Cod
Signs of spring: endangered right whales return to New England with their calves each spring.
Watch endangered whale mother feed her calf
A critically-endangered North Atlantic right whale, named Spindle, was swimming with her calf off of Cape Cod last week. The species heads to the New England coast in spring, according to NOAA.
CAPE COD, Mass. - A rare sighting was captured in the Cape Cod Bay in Massachusetts. Video shows a North Atlantic right whale and her calf swimming side by side.
The pair was seen on March 27.
The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution posted footage of the moment. It showed a right whale called Spindle feeding and swimming with her calf.
Signs of spring. An endangered right whale and her calf return to New England.
(Michael Moore & Carolyn Miller © Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution via Storyful / FOX Weather)
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The NOAA Fisheries says the critically-endangered species usually travels the New England coast in the spring.
A fourth of the total population was spotted off the coast of Cape Cod last month, the Boston Globe reported.