{"id":1093,"date":"2016-02-29T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-29T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/29\/february-2016-sighting-statistics\/"},"modified":"2019-11-22T22:34:49","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T22:34:49","slug":"february-2016-sighting-statistics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/february-2016-sighting-statistics\/","title":{"rendered":"February 2016 sighting statistics"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nThis year February has been a great month to see whales and dolphins off S\u00e3o Miguel Island in the Azores. Although it is still winter we have been seeing more than just our 4 resident species. It seems that the spring migration of baleen whales has started earlier than usual, as we have already encountered many fin whales<\/a> as well as a humpback whale<\/a>. On several days other days without baleen whales we encountered some of our resident sperm whales<\/a> to give us a mix of different types of tours throughout the month. As well as these 3 whale species we have also encountered 3 different dolphin species this month: common dolphin<\/a>, bottlenose dolphin<\/a> and striped dolphin<\/a>. This has also been the month that we sighted the first Cory’s shearwaters<\/a> of the year, so winter is defintely coming to and end.<\/div>\n
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