The Irish Whale and Dolphin Group Annual General Meeting will take place on 22 October 2016 at 2pm at the Shannon Dolphin Centre, Kilrush, Co Clare Current members of the IWDG are invited to attend this event.
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IWDG General Manager The Irish Whale and Dolphin Group (www.iwdg.ie) is an All-Ireland group “dedicated to the conservation and better understanding of cetaceans (whales, dolphins and porpoises) in Irish waters through study, education and interpretation”. The IWDG is a registered charity (CHY 11163) and a Limited Company (No. 33209) and is the leading marine NGO
On the 16th of August 2016, researchers from the IWDG and Shannon Dolphin and Wildlife Foundation (SDWF) were called to a live-stranding of two common dolphins in Doonaha, Co. Clare. A member of the public, Aidan Peacock, had come across the dolphins, which turned out to be a mother-calf pair, and contacted Dolphinwatch Carrigaholt who
Patrick Lyne reports on the latest IWDG offshore survey this time to the shelf edge near France ….. With a suitable but brief weather window we headed out to the shelf edge from Adrigole harbour on August 28th. Arriving on the shelf edge the morning of August 29th in dull calm weather. Common dolphins apart
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On Saturday 27th August the Irish Whale and Dolphin Group delivered Whale Watch Ireland 2016. This All–Ireland Whale Watch day comprised free, guided whale watches at 20 sites throughout the country. This event now in its 16th year is one of the largest events on the Irish wildlife calendar and was attended by C. 1,120
Photographs sent to IWDG showing assymetric colouration of the baleen plates confirm that the baleen whale which stranded at Shankill in County Dublin early yesterday (19 August) is a juvenile female fin whale. This is the fortieth recorded stranding of this species on the IWDG database but only the third record from the east coast
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The final leg of the Celtic Mist Sanctuary Tour promised fantastic coastal scenery, sheltered bays and inlets, beautiful towns and ….. whales ! It was also a personal test as skipper Finbarr O’Connell and Ollie Switzer were joined by the Berrow family, Rónán, Cuan and Muireann and myself and Frances. Seven on a boat for
Once again, the Mullet Peninsula in Co. Mayo lives up to it's reputation as a 'hotspot' for mass live strandings of common dolphins in Ireland. Aoife Foley, a member of IWDG and the Broadhaven Bay Marine Mammal Monitoring Program (MaREI/UCC) takes up the story: "On Saturday 23rd July 2016, the call was raised that there