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On April 9th Ciaran Cronin reported a humpback whale off Bray Head, Valentia Island, Co. Kerry. This was an early Kerry humpback sighting, but wasn’t without precedent. In recent years humpbacks have been seen in April, but these tended to be isolated events, involving single animals observed once or twice. It is the consistency of
Report III April 14 2016 Successfully tagged five basking sharks off Kilkee, Co Clare on Wednesday with individually numbered coloured tags. Also obtained samples for genetic analysis. Check out youtbe video of tagging attempt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMYFs6pPrGA and More footage of tagging and sampling basking sharks off Kilkee, Co Clare with the Irish Basking Shark Study Group,
IWDG recieved our 1st humpback whale report of the 2016 large whale season from Ciaran Cronin, of Wildeye on Saturday morning, April 9th from Valentia Island, Co. Kerry. This sighting was of an adult animal that surfaced among large no's of gannets and newly arrived manx shearwaters within 150 m of the cliffs at Bray
At present, Nimmo’s Pier, in the heart of Galway city, is alive with wildlife! A bottlenose dolphin, believed to be semi resident in the area, has been sighted frequently over the last few weeks. The dolphin has been observed just beyond the wall at the end of the pier, spending most of his/her time approximately
On Friday evening 25th March at 8:00pm on ITV, you’ll have an opportunity to see watch spectacular aerial footage of bubble-netting humpback whales, filmed by drone in the Dingle Bay area during Sept. 2015. This portion of the show was a collaboration with IWDG and the footage which is a first for the
Some of you may have had the pleasure of seeing the antics of the bottlenose dolphin, known as "Clet" during the summer of 2014, when between mid May through to October, the IWDG sighting scheme tracked his movements along Cork and Kerry and up the West coast as he moved north though Irish waters. There
Updated 11 March 2016 Recorded deaths of common dolphins on the west coast of Ireland between 1 January and today’s date (11 March) in 2016 have reached a new record high, with 36 confirmed so far (excluding others where species wasn’t confirmed due to body condition which were simply recorded as ‘dolphin species’). The previous high
Dr Simon Berrow, Chief Science Officer and Acting CEO of the IWDG, will feature on RTE Radio 1 Mooney Goes Wild between 10-11pm this Sunday (21 Feb) evening. Simon will discuss the implications of new research into concentrations of persistent pollutants in dolphins and porpoise around Europe, including Ireland. He will also talk with the
There will always for some very obvious reasons be a bias towards reporting of the larger whale species such as the fin and humpback whales along the Irish South and Southwest, as these tend to attract more public and media attention, and indeed we've almost certainly also been guilty of giving the bigger blubber species