{"id":1606,"date":"2014-03-31T10:24:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-31T10:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/31\/march-2014-sighting-statistics\/"},"modified":"2019-11-22T22:31:27","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T22:31:27","slug":"march-2014-sighting-statistics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/march-2014-sighting-statistics\/","title":{"rendered":"March 2014 sighting statistics"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nDuring the past month the baleen whale season started in the Azores. Every year from about mid March to early June baleen whales (here in the Azores mostly the 3 largest species in the world – blue whale<\/a>, fin whale<\/a> and sei whale<\/a> respectively) pass by the Azores on their annual migration. During March this year we have already had several encounters with fin whales and we encountered our first blue whale on the 21st of March<\/a>. The blue whale turned out to be an individual that we recognise from 2010 so all of our biologists were very excited to have our first re-sighting of the same individual here in S\u00e3o Miguel!<\/div>\n
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\nDuring this month we have also encountered a group our resident sperm whales<\/a> and we have had a surprise encounter with some beaked whales<\/a> also. As usual dolphins have made a regular appearance during all of our tours. The dolphin species we have encountered this past month are common dolphins<\/a>, bottlenose dolphins<\/a> and striped dolphins<\/a>. In total we have encountered 7 different whale and dolphin species during March!<\/div>\n

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\nOur daily sighting statistics for all species sighted this month are graphed above and listed below:<\/p>\n

Common dolphin (Delphinus delphis<\/i>)<\/a> – 87%
\nBottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus<\/i>)<\/a> – 93%
\nStriped dolphin (Stenella coeruleoalba<\/i>)<\/a> – 13%
\nBeaked whale species (Mesoplodon sp.<\/i>)<\/a> – 7%
\nSperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus<\/i>)<\/a> – 7%
\nBlue whale (Balaenoptera musculus<\/i>)<\/a> – 7%
\nFin whale (Balaenoptera physalus<\/i>)<\/a> – 27%<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"During the past month the baleen whale season started in the Azores. 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