square-flipper

Updated: May 18, 2025

The herds are followed on a large scale at the end of the winter season, which is also the whelping season, and hundreds of thousands are killed, females and young preponderating. They are still common along the east and south, but diminishing steadily, especially in the St. Lawrence. The Bearded, or "Square-flipper," seal is rare in the St.

William Charles Henry Wood - Animal Sanctuaries in Labrador: An Address Presented by Lt.-Colonel William Wood, F.R.S.C. before: the Second Annual Meeting of the Commission of Conservation at Quebec,: January, 1911