Two dolphins are spotted in the East River of New York City in an extremely rare observation for residents of the metropolis.
The pair of marine mammals blinded observers while jumping out of the water close to 96th Street on the border between Manhattan's Upper East Side and Harlem.
They were seen for a few hours on both Valentine's Day and Saturday this week.
Online images that are placed online show that the dolphins make an elegant leap out of the water, framed by the urban landscape of Stadswolkenkrabbers, iron bridges and the FDR.
They identified observers as ordinary dolphins with short cuts, which differ from the bottlenosis dolphins that were usually seen close to beaches on the Atlantic coast.
Common dolphins live close to New York in the Atlantic Ocean, but it is rare that they venture into the waterways of the city, especially in winter when they migrate to the south.
Experts have no idea why the two adventurous dolphins came to the East River this week.
Danielle Brown, director of research at Gotham Whale, said that in recent years only 'a handful of observations of this kind' have been in the Hudson of East Rivers in recent years.
Two dolphins are spotted in the East River of New York City in an extremely rare observation for residents of the metropolis. One of the dolphins is shown above
“There are now fishing in the river, but it is not clear at the moment whether the dolphins are feeding,” she told the New York Post.
“The fact that it is not a frequent event makes it more important that any observations are reported so that these dolphins can be checked.”
Dolphin observations in the East River are extremely rare and always make a splash when they occur.
The last recorded observation of dolphins in the Waterweg was back in 2023.
Three dolphins were also caught on the camera in the river in March 2021, so that a gloomy day was erected during the Coronavirus -Lockdown in the city.
Before that, the last registered observation was in 2013, when a solo swimmer was seen above the waves, this time between the center of Manhattan and Brooklyn.
