Sperm whales of 
Northern Europe

This website is the direct result of a succesfull crowdfunding project in 2017. After a group of 30 sperm whales stranded on beaches of the Netherlands, the UK, Denmark, France and Germany, I hoped to identify some of the stranded whales from European sperm whale catalogues. Unfortunately, I was not able to find any of the stranded whales in any of the existing sperm whale catalogues. What I did find however, was that there is very little publicly available data. Most of the data is kept private and only available to collaborating researchers. I believe that the public should play a large role in research, and I am convinced that we can learn much more about these amazing animals by inviting everyone who is interested to be a part of this project.