Suggested Marine Mammal Field Guides

(There are lots of marine mammal field guides out there and the following are just some of the those that we find useful. If you would like to recommend other published marine mammal field guides, please email us)

Carwardine, M. 1995. Whales, Dolphins and Porpoises. Dorling Kindersley Publishing, Inc., 95 Madison Ave., NY 10016. 256p.

Clapham, P.J.  1996.  Humpback whales.  Voyageur Press, MN.

Clapham, P.J.  1997.  Whales of the World.  Voyageur Press, Stillwater, MN.
 
Jefferson, T.A., S. Leatherwood and M.A. Webber. 1993. Marine Mammals of the World. Food and Agriculture Organization (F.A.O.) of the United Nations, Viale delle Terme di Caracalla, 00100 Rome, Italy. 320p.
 
Jefferson, T.A., S. Leatherwood, L.K.M. Shoda, R.L. Pitman. 1992. Marine Mammals of the Gulf of Mexico. A Field Guide for Aerial and Shipboard Observers. Texas A & M University Printing Center, College Station, TX 77843. 92p.
 
Katona, S.K., V. Rough and D.T. Richardson. 1993. A Field Guide to Whales Porpoises and Seals From Cape Cod to Newfoundland. Fourth Edition. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, DC. 316p.
 
Katona, S.K., V. Rough and D.T. Richardson. 1983. A Field Guide to the Whales, Porpoises and Seals of the Gulf of Maine and Eastern Canada - Cape Cod Bay to Newfoundland. Third Edition. Charles Scribner's Sons, NY. 255p.
 
Katona, S., D. Richardson and R. Hazard. 1975. Whales and Seals of the Gulf of Maine. Maine Coast Printers, Rockalnd, ME [ISBN 0-916080-01-3]. 97p.
 
Leatherwood, S. and R.R. Reeves. 1983. The Sierra Club Handbook of Whales of Dolphins. Sierra Club Books, San Francisco, CA. 302p.
 
Leatherwood, S., D.K. Caldwell and H.E. Winn. 1976. Whales, Dolphins and Porpoises of the Western North Atlantic. NOAA Tech. Rept. NMFS CIRC-396, Seattle, WA. For sale by: Supt. Of Documents, Printing Office, Washington, DC. [Stock no. 003-020-00119-0] 176p.
 
Wynne, K. and M. Schwartz.  1999.  Guide to Marine Mammals & Turtles of the U.S. Atlantic & Gulf of Mexico.  Rhode Island Sea Grant, University of Rhode Island, Narragansett, RI.  [ISBN 0-938412-43-4].  vi + 114 pp.

 
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