Futurismo Biologists Team
summer guest the seasonal Atlantic spotted dolphins which are quite
special. This summer we found big pods and they were often giving shows of
flat or high leaps.
than the months before but the claimed again there common ranking. They were
followed by the bottlenose dolphins and the Risso’s dolphins so our four
residents on the top five.
We came across Striped dolphins, Sowerby’s beaked whales and pilot whales in this order of frequency and we even saw to baleen whale species. Sei whale and Minke whale each once, so more exceptional sightings to have a “spring” species in summer.
Occasionally we enjoyed other wildlife apart from the cetaceans like sunfish, devil rays, hammerhead sharks, blue shark and loggerhead turtles.
Flying fish were quite often seen and the first half of the months we still meet a lot of Portuguese man-o-war which had quite an extended season this year.
Sea birds; apart from the common sightings of Cory’s Shearwater, common terns and the yellow-legged seagulls, we had regular sightings of Bulwer’s petrels and the last week of August we finally observed the Great Shearwater more often.
Futurismo Biologists Team
Sandrina Rodrigues
