{"id":1346,"date":"2015-03-02T10:39:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-02T10:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/02\/february-2015-sighting-statistics\/"},"modified":"2019-11-22T22:33:16","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T22:33:16","slug":"february-2015-sighting-statistics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/february-2015-sighting-statistics\/","title":{"rendered":"February 2015 sighting statistics"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nThis year the winter has been very mild in the Azores, making for some very nice whale and dolphin watching tours departing from S\u00e3o Miguel Island. At least one of our resident species (common dolphin<\/a>, bottlenose dolphin<\/a> and sperm whale<\/a>) has kept us company every day that we have been out on the ocean. Between encounters with the residents we have also encountered some of the first of the seasonal species of the year, with several sightings of striped dolphins<\/a>, two days with false killer whales<\/a> and one day with a breaching humpback whale<\/a>.  We always keep an eye out for other marine life and this month our “other species” list includes loggerhead turtles<\/a>, krill<\/a>, Portuguese man-o-war<\/a>, velella<\/a>, jellyfish<\/a>, and several seabirds including the first Cory’s shearwates<\/a> of the year, several glaucous gulls<\/a>, northern gannets<\/a> and great skuas<\/a>. <\/div>\n
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\nCetacean sighting frequencies (% of days seen during the month of February): <\/span><\/b><\/div>\n
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