Mick O’Connell, Strandings Officer with the IWDG is a lovely man but when you see his name pop up on your phone early on a Sunday morning, you know it’s not good news! Today, Sunday the 8th January, Mick rang to say Brian Langan was just after reporting a live stranding to the IWDG at
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The IWDG are delighted to announce we have appointed Lorraine Bull as our new General Manager and Communications Officer. Lorraine has been a member of the IWDG for many years and attended a number of courses including the Cape Clear Whale Watching weekend and SMART sea training onboard Celtic Mist. Lorraine has a degree in Zoology
A little bit closer to home than Sri Lanka….. Recent sighting reports to IWDG suggest that the annual eastward movement of large whales, namely fin and humpbacks, along the Irish South coast is underway. In recent days whale watchers Andrew Malcolm and Ann Trimble from Ram Head, Ardmore Co. Waterford have had memorable fin whale
This year I have been fortune enough to spend my Christmas and New Year travelling through South India and Sri Lanka. It has been an amazing experience of social and cultural difference, culinary experimentation and a natural environment that at times has seemed unparalleled. But without a doubt, my most special and enduring memory will
Research carried out by the Shannon Dolphin and Wildlife Foundation and the Irish Whale and Dolphin Group, largely from their new research vessel Celtic Mist, has led them to propose that Tralee and Brandon Bays in North Kerry should be protected for bottlenose dolphins. The Shannon Estuary is one of the most important sites in
The first meeting of a new IWDG Group in North Kerry will take place on Friday 9th December at the visitor centre for Tralee Bay Wetlands Centre in Tralee, Co Kerry from 19:30-21:00pm. A talk by biologist Dr. Marie Louis on her work on bottlenose dolphins in Ireland and internationally will be followed by a meeting on how to go
Earlier today (27 November), a large baleen whale c.12m in length was spotted struggling in very shallow water at Cross Beach, Killadoon, Co. Mayo. The whale was effectively stranded but as the incoming tide rose, surfers from nearby managed to encourage it away from the beach and it eventually managed to swim away in a
The Irish Whale and Dolphin Group (IWDG) will run a Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC) Marine Mammal Observer (MMO) course in Cork at the Maldron hotel on January 14, 2017. On Sunday the 15th a Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) Protected Species Observer (PSO) course is proposed to be held at the same venue. Cost of
IWDG welcome a new edition to their Board with the appointment of Conal O'Flanagan. Conal lives in north County Dublin and has been interested in cetaceans for over 30 years. He was delighted to hear in 1999 that a number of people had come together to set up the IWDG. He joined the Group soon after and
This event is being hosted by the Cork branch of Bird Watch Ireland and will comprise a talk by IWDG Sightings Officer Padraig Whooley titled "Whale and Whale Watching along the Cork coast". This is a free event and open to both Bird Watch Ireland and Irish Whale and Dolphin Group members and indeed anyone