Despite the absence of whale activity in the waters off Cape Clear, course participants enjoyed several close harbour porpoise encounters and a nice run with common dolphins during the pelagic trip.
Posts Categorized: News
We were contacted by IWDG committee member Faith Wilson who has just seen a minimum of three large baleen whales blowing in outer Donegal Bay area from St. John’s Point. At c14:00 Faith Wilson and local NPWS Conservation Ranger, Emer Magee initially were watching a minke whale from St. John’s Point lighthouse, when Emer picked
A ferocious-looking fossil with sharp teeth found in Australia shows that ancestors of today’s toothless blue whales were not all “gentle giants”, a report said on Wednesday.
Two whales were washed up on the Cumbria coast, officials have said. A dead 20ft minke whale was discovered after Friday’s high tide at Seascale. It has now been confirmed that a second animal was a minke calf.
Work is continuing to remove a dead 20ft whale which was washed up on the Cumbrian coast on Friday night. BBC
During the summer of 2004 a survey of cetacean distribution and relative abundance was conducted on board the RV Celtic Explorer off the west coast of Ireland. 508 hours of survey effort were conducted, with 304.2 hours in Beaufort sea-state 3 or less. Two hundred and thirty one sightings of eight species were recorded. These
A young man has been reported to the procurator fiscal after an incident involving dolphins in the Moray Firth. BBC
The All-Ireland whale watch day, despite poor visibility was a great success, with record numbers joining the IWDG on headlands in each of the provences, for simultaneous watches. Breakdown below.
South African officials set fire to a 34-tonne whale carcass on Wednesday, sending white smoke into the air near Cape Town as spectators clambered over blubber-strewn rocks for a closer look.
The Irish Ferries high speed ferry ‘Jonathan Swift’ was reported to have struck a soft object, possibly a whale off the Holyhead coast at 2pm today.