Update 29/08/09 The second Northern bottlenose whale, a 5.8m male animal has unfortunately now also been found dead, stranded at Whiddy Island. Bantry whale update 28/08/09 10:30am Clare Heardman, NPWS can now confirm that the Northern bottlenose whale that died yesterday at Bantry at 17:00 was a 6.3m (20ft) female. It will be removed later
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Follow the daily blog on: http://www.iwdg.ie/ShipSurveys/?id=68 A research team of 12 men and six women are heading out to the edge of the continental shelf on an IWDG/GMIT cetacean survey – the first dedicated cetacean survey ever carried out by Irelands’ state research vessels. The main aim of the survey is to conduct a habitat
Update 29/08/09 The second Northern bottlenose whale, a 5.8m male animal has unfortunately now also been found dead, stranded at Whiddy Island. Bantry whale update 28/08/09 10:30am Clare Heardman, NPWS can now confirm that the Northern bottlenose whale that died yesterday at Bantry at 17:00 was a 6.3m (20ft) female. It will be removed later
IWDG have received a sighting report with supporting video clips taken on a mobile phone which confirm a group of three Northern bottlenose whales off the mouth of Carlingford Lough, Co. Down on Sat. 22nd August 2009. The sighting was made during an angling trip outside Carlingford Lough, and was reported to us by Mark
The IWDG delivered the 8th All-Ireland, Whale Watch Day, on Sun 23rd August 2009 with free guided land-based whale watches at 15 watch sites around the coast. To say the weather on the day was unsuitable for whale watching would be putting it mildly. Moderate to poor conditions prevailed at all sites except for Bray
Early yesterday morning Peggy Fitzgerald from Cloghane in North Kerry phoned up the IWDG to report that a dolphin had recently been refloated by her son. At 6pm the Irish Coastguard phoned the IWDG to report a porpoise/dolphin on the neach at Annagashen, Co Louth. These events take place only a few days after a
A 7m basking shark was tagged off the Blasket Islands, Co Kerry on Sunday 9 August. This was the 100th shark tagged this season, an astonishing success rate. Prior to this year only eight tags had been deployed on basking sharks in Ireland and less than 50 worldwide. The tagging study, funded by a Heritage
The IWDG stall will be present at the Coastal Zone Portrush for the next 3 days. A great opportunity to find out more about the Groups work in general and swap stories about recent sightings (or lack of). A series of whale and dolphin watches will take place together with all of the other activities
Report 9, 3 August 2009 @ 12:30 There have been no sightings of the pilot whales so far today. IWDG personnel and National Parks and Wildlife Service rangers monitored the coast of Tralee and Brandon Bays from first light yesterday 2 August. Despite good viewing conditions, the pilot whales could not be located. It is
The IWDG has recently expanded it’s photo ID catalogue to include Risso’s dolphins. These are an enigmatic pelagic dolphin species that appear to move inshore during the summer months. Their global population status remains unknown and they are thus a species of high conservational concern. A quick search of our sightings database will reveal a