{"id":107,"date":"2019-08-07T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-07T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/07\/sightings-statistics-july-2019\/"},"modified":"2020-02-21T16:42:53","modified_gmt":"2020-02-21T17:42:53","slug":"sightings-statistics-july-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/sightings-statistics-july-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Sightings Statistics July 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
\nThere is no doubt July was a great month! <\/span><\/div>\n
\nWe had very good weather
\nconditions almost everyday, great encounters and emotions!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\nThe ranking is very different from other years and from other months. Normally the most sighted species are common dolphins. This is because they live in larger
\ngroups and they are much more coastal animals making the encounters easier, but the biggest surprise and the winners of July were\u2026The SPERM whales! (with a 100% rate
\nof successful encounters).<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
\n
\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
\n<\/a><\/div>\n


\n<\/span><\/span>
\n
\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\nWe have been able to gather lots of data for our research; we saw
\nmany tails and at least 3 of the pods or units that we have identified.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
\nSperm whales have been active: we saw pregnant sperm whales<\/a>, and also giving birth TWICE<\/a>, countless breaching and lobtailings\u2026<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\nOur biologist already discovered that the second birth belongs to the
\nWhite Unit<\/a>!<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
\nIn the areas where we were sighting them very often, we were able to see
\n(sometimes even to pick up) rests of the menu of sperm whales, pieces of
\nSeven-arm Octopus (Halipron atlanticus). <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
\n
\n<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n


\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\nThis event of finding the rests of the
\nfood of these giants of the ocean have happened more frequently than ever, and
\nalso different as normally we recover pieces of other species of squids<\/a>, so who
\nknows\u2026 but it seems that there is more seven-arm octopus<\/a> around!<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
\nIn addition to this, the rate of <\/span><\/span>encounter<\/span> <\/span>with baleen whales have been much
\nlower this month if compared with other years, the diet of this group of
\ncetaceans consists on small fishes and plankton.<\/span><\/div>\n
\nThe amount of food resources in and habitat defines the preferences of the species. We hope that our lovely moby dick whales stay much
\nlonger in our \u2018backyard\u2019 as we like to say when they are really close to
\nthe harbour of Ponta Delgada.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\nThe presence of Risso\u2019s dolphins and striped dolphin has been very
\nstrong this month unlike the Atlantic spotted dolphins which had been less
\naround than other years\u2026<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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