{"id":1114,"date":"2016-01-31T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-31T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/31\/january-2016-sighting-statistics\/"},"modified":"2019-11-22T22:34:44","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T22:34:44","slug":"january-2016-sighting-statistics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/january-2016-sighting-statistics\/","title":{"rendered":"January 2016 sighting statistics"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nThe first month of 2016 has come to an end, which brings us to the time of our monthly sighting statistics. The past month has been tough for us weather-wise so we could not go out on the water many days. In total we went out 9 days, but the good part is we saw cetaceans on every one of these tours. We are continuing our roll from last year of 100% success rate, seeing at least one dolphin or whale species during every tour. The species encountered this past month, in order of most sighted, were common dolphins<\/a>, bottlenose dolphins<\/a>, sperm whales<\/a> and striped dolphins<\/a>. At the end of the month we also had an encounter with a mystery baleen whale species. We did not see this whale well so we can’t confirm the species, but it looked to be either a humpback whale<\/a> or a minke whale<\/a>. As the beginning of the spring approaches we can look forward to the migration of more baleen whales, mostly fin whales<\/a>, blue whales<\/a> and sei whales<\/a>. It shouldn’t be too long now before they start to arrive. Other species we encountered during January include several seabirds, such as yellow-legged gulls<\/a>, great skuas<\/a>, northern gannets<\/a> and black-legged kittiwakes<\/a>, as well as a few loggerhead turtles<\/a>.<\/div>\n

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