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Hawaiʻi · 2001—2026

Hawaiian monk seal

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Total reports
93
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4 February—20 September

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Explore Hawaiʻi sightings

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Island markers filter reports. Place markers show named shores or offshore islands from published records, never exact animal positions. Counts are reports, not seals.

7 of 7 reports name a mapped island · 3 have a named shore or island reference

Main Hawaiian Islands same scale

N ↑Kauaʻi: 3 reports, remove area filter1Oʻahu: 4 reports, filter this area2

Kauaʻi coast enlarged

Oʻahu coast enlarged

Camp Erdman shoreline: 1 report; named place reference, not an observation coordinate1Paradise Cove: 1 report; named place reference, not an observation coordinate2Baby Makapuʻu tide pools: 1 report; named place reference, not an observation coordinate3

Reported islands west to east

  1. Kauaʻi3 reports
  2. Oʻahu4 reports

Named shores and islands

  1. Camp Erdman shoreline1 report
  2. Paradise Cove1 report
  3. Baby Makapuʻu tide pools1 report

Outline: Natural Earth. Place references: USGS, State of Hawaiʻi, NOAA and University of Hawaiʻi.

Reports over time

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Select a year, then a month. Counts describe published reports; one animal may appear in several reports.

  1. 12001
  2. 12002
  3. 22007
  4. 12008
  5. 32009
  6. 12010
  7. 22011
  8. 22012
  9. 22013
  10. 52014
  11. 22015
  12. 22017
  13. 32018
  14. 32019
  15. 42026

Months in 2019

  1. 0Jan
  2. 1Feb
  3. 0Mar
  4. 0Apr
  5. 0May
  6. 0Jun
  7. 1Jul
  8. 0Aug
  9. 1Sep
  10. 0Oct
  11. 0Nov
  12. 0Dec

Grouped by each record’s archive date. Approximate dates keep their original labels in the records below.

  1. Kauaʻi shoreline (beach not specified) Kauaʻi
    Male pup PK6 (later identified as RL40) Kauaʻi Seals field account

    A male pup later identified as RL40 was born on this date. A later field report attributes him to R400; this observation does not count the mother because the initial birth documentation shows the pup. Hawaiian monk seal · 1 seal

  2. Remote Nā Pali Coast Kauaʻi
    Pup PK3, later identified as RL30 Kauaʻi Seals field account

    A pup later identified as RL30 was reported on the remote Nā Pali coast. The initial report did not positively identify its mother. Hawaiian monk seal · 1 seal

  3. Kauaʻi shoreline (beach not specified) Kauaʻi
    Male pup later identified as RL08 Kauaʻi Seals field account

    Kauaʻi Seals reported the start of the 2019 pupping season on this date. The summary does not identify the mother; later reports identify a 2019 pup as RL08. Hawaiian monk seal · 1 seal