Last night's humpback whale presentation by IWDG Sightings Officer Padraig Whooley, Cape Verdes film, Q&A in Clonakilty Library was a great success, with a full house of over 50 people. Big thanks to local library staff and Micheal Plaice who were so supportive of this event from the start. Great to meet up with whale
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Excellent initiative by the Irish fishing industry and BIM to start addressing the serious issue of marine debris. http://www.irishexaminer.com/farming/news/fishing-for-litter-initiative-encourages-fishermen-to-take-ashore-the-litter-they-catch-376752.html Entanglement and ingestion of marine plastic is a problem globally and locally and we have considerable evidence of plastic ingestion by whales and dolphins in Ireland including both macro-plastics and micro-plastics. There is no justification for
During the last couple of weeks, 16 male sperm whales have stranded on North Sea coasts of the UK, Holland and Germany. While not unusual for male sperm whales to be found at these latitudes, they would typically be found in deep offshore waters at or beyond the edge of the continental shelf rather than
IWDG Northern Ireland branch will host a Cetacean Effort Watch Training Day on Saturday 6th February at the Co. Antrim Yacht Club in Whitehead at 9.30AM. Entrance is free but participants must pre-register.
You'll see from the Recent Sightings on the left side of this website's homepage a sample list of the 10 most recent validated sightings from around the country, and if you select the Mapping option at the bottom of the list, it's hard not to notice that whale sightings are predominantly coming from the Southeast
Report 18th Jan 2016…… We've had no further sighting updates in almost 2 weeks now of the South Dublin group of 3 bottlenose dolphins. But a sighting received today from well know Dublin birder and sea kayaker Sean Pierce may well suggest that the trio have moved north and are in the Carlingford Lough area.
On Jan 14th we saw a Facebook post regarding dolphins at Passage West in Cork Hbr area, and as per protocol we requested that a sighting form be completed online. On receipt of the online sighting record with the following images yesterday 15th Jan, we can now confirm that they were short-beaked common dolphins. Images
A packed audience attended the launch of the new IWDG/Canola Film Productions documentary on The Humpback Whales of Cape Verde.This film document the last IWDG Expedition to Cape Verde in search of humpbacks in September 2014. IWDG have been visiting the island archipeligo in an attempt to discover the breeding grounds of humpback whales visiting
Canola Pictures in association with The Irish Whale and Dolphin Group (IWDG) will premiere the film The Humpback Whales of Cape Verde as part of a unique collaboration with the libraries of Ireland. The Irish made film will be shown on the 12th January 2016 at the Lexicon in Dun Laoghaire at 7pm. It will
One of the last strandings of 2015 proved to be one of the more interesting. A whale reported by a number of locals in west Clare turned out to be a juvenile Cuvier's beaked whale. The whale measured 3.7m and was a female. Cuvier's grow up to 5-7m in length with no differences between males