With our website’s enhanced reporting and interrogation functions now in place, we are delighted to be able to resume cetacean reports for IWDG members, and plan on maintaining regular sighting summaries over the coming autumn/winter months. A full review of 636 validated sightings, comprising nine species (with images) during the four months June-Sept 2012 is available on the
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Those of you who keep an eye on the daily sightings updates on www.iwdg.ie, can’t have missed that the 2012/13 “Large Whale season” is gathering momentum. For some of course, the large whale season began along time ago as Kerry observers have enjoyed an unprecedented four-month run of humpback whale activity courtesy of a group of 3-4
Those of you who keep an eye on the daily sightings updates on www.iwdg.ie, can’t have missed that the 2012/13 “Large Whale season” is gathering momentum. For some of course, the large whale season began along time ago as Kerry observers have enjoyed an unprecedented four-month run of humpback whale activity courtesy of a group of 3-4
A third striped dolphin was reported on 17 November. A juvenile dolphin measuring just 1.32m was reported by Frankie and Marie Morris and was visited today, in the pouring rain, by Simon Berrow and family. Although badly eaten away the dolphin was fresgly stranded and probably associated with the striped dolphin stranding in Ballybunnion last Friday.
A third striped dolphin was reported on 17 November. A juvenile dolphin measuring just 1.32m was reported by Frankie and Marie Morris and was visited today, in the pouring rain, by Simon Berrow and family. Although badly eaten away the dolphin was fresgly stranded and probably associated with the striped dolphin stranding in Ballybunnion last Friday.
The world’s rarest species of whale has finally been seen and photographed, 140 years after it was first identified from a jaw bone. Spade-toothed beaked whales, Mesoplodon traversii, grow to more than 5 metres (16 feet) long but, apart from a handful of skull bones, had never been seen until two bodies were found stranded
The world’s rarest species of whale has finally been seen and photographed, 140 years after it was first identified from a jaw bone. Spade-toothed beaked whales, Mesoplodon traversii, grow to more than 5 metres (16 feet) long but, apart from a handful of skull bones, had never been seen until two bodies were found stranded
Update IV, 31/10/12…the end of the road! Last week on 24th October, the Baltimore fin whale carcass was towed out to open water between the Bill of Cape Clear and the Fasnet Rock, West Cork and sunk with 3 tonnes of wagon wheels (not the Cadbury's variety). With her, went any chance of salvaging the skeleton, which
Update IV, 31/10/12…the end of the road! Last week on 24th October, the Baltimore fin whale carcass was towed out to open water between the Bill of Cape Clear and the Fasnet Rock, West Cork and sunk with 3 tonnes of wagon wheels (not the Cadbury's variety). With her, went any chance of salvaging the skeleton, which
The Irish Whale and Dolphin Group have called on the Irish government to designate a marine protected area for harbour porpoise off County Dublin. At the second All Ireland Mammal Symposium held in the Botanic Gardens, Dublin IWDG Executive Officer Dr Simon Berrow, who was a keynote speaker at the conference, presented data to show