August 2009 sighting statistics

This August we great whale watching sighting statistics – 15 whale and dolphin species for the month! 8 whale species and 7 dolphin species. You will struggle to find another place in the world where you can see some many different whales and dolphins in such a short time period. Just see the big list of species below (listed in order of sighting frequency). The sighting frequencies of each species can be seen in the graph above. As you can see the four most sighted species were the sperm whale (resident here in the Azores), Atlantic spotted dolphin, bottlenose dolphin and common dolphin…