As part of my PhD, funded by the National Parks and Wildlife Service, based at GMIT, dedicated transects are carried out in Galway Bay, weather permitting once per month. These monthly transects are ongoing since May, 2005. Harbour porpoises have been the most frequently sighted species while bottlenose dolphin sightings have rarely been recorded. Other
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The IWDG have received the first confirmed report of minke whales in 2007, with two seen west of the Old Head of Kinsale, Co. Cork, 25th March by Shane Egan. Although reported as probables, their length (12-30ft), the absence of either a visible blow or tail-fluking strongly suggests these were indeed Ireland’s smallest and most
Bookings are now being taken for the IWDG whale-watching weekend which takes place on Tory Island on 11th – 13th May 2007. This will be our 4th year running a whale-watching weekend on the Island and in the past we have seen bottlenose, Risso’s dolphins, harbour porpoise and basking sharks. Participants should ideally arrive on
From the 3rd March to the 17th March 2007, there have been five separate stranding incidents reported to the IWDG in Co. Kerry. On the 3rd of March, a 2.41m pilot whale (Globicephala melas) was reported from Fahamore, in Brandon Bay. This was followed by a 2.35m bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) in Waterville on the
Cambodia’s rare Mekong dolphin is making a tentative comeback from the edge of extinction after net fishing was banned in its main habitat, Cambodian and World Wildlife Fund officials said on Wednesday.
A young whale which had become stranded on a north Wales beach has been put down by a rescue team. BBC
A 21-year-old man has denied recklessly harassing dolphins by driving a jet ski at high speed in Moray waters. BBC
A group of 20-30 bottlenose dolphins were observed for hours close in to Loop Head.
Japan has abandoned whale hunting in the Antarctic for this season after its main whaling ship was crippled by a fire two weeks ago, the Fisheries Agency said on Wednesday.
The cetacean sighting and stranding schemes are the backbone of the IWDG and we have been co-ordinating both on an All-Ireland basis since 1991. It is important that all records in a database are validated thus ensuring the quality of the data. All stranding records submitted to the IWDG are validated and an annual list