Every year, more than 50,000 belugas leave the waters of the Arctic in the spring to swim in Canada’s Hudson Bay. They spend the winter under the sea ice and no one really knows exactly why they leave the area when it melts, but scientists are happy to be able to get a good look at the animals during that time and they’re enlisting your help.
Since 2013, an underwater camera attached to the Beluga Boat traveling on Manitoba’s Churchill River Estuary livestreams the thousands of belugas visiting the area. Anyone with an internet connection can observe and hear the marine mammals as they swim, eat, nurse around the Hudson Bay, but they can also do much more than oh and aw at the majestic creatures.
