{"id":1618,"date":"2014-03-14T22:42:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-14T22:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/14\/social-dolphins-and-many-corys\/"},"modified":"2019-11-22T22:31:24","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T22:31:24","slug":"social-dolphins-and-many-corys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/social-dolphins-and-many-corys\/","title":{"rendered":"Social dolphins and many Cory’s shearwater coming back to the Azores"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n
\nAfter a
\nfew days of bad weather, today the rain and the wind gave us a small break and
\nallowed us to go out again to the ocean. We left Ponta Delgada early in the
\nmorning with the sun shining upon us and with three boats containing people eager to
\nsee some species of cetaceans. Our lookout<\/a> (vigia) had spotted several groups of
\ndolphins so he guided us towards the first group of them, a group of about 30
\nbottlenose dolphins<\/a> (Tursiops truncatus<\/i>) which were spread out in the
\narea, and as usual, really social and interested in us. After enjoying the
\nplayful dolphins, we drove to another group spotted by our “vigia”, a
\ngroup of common dolphins<\/a> (Delphinus delphis<\/i>), which were more quiet
\nand social than the other dolphins, although we could observe them very close to
\nour boats, while bowriding and surfing the waves. Almost at the end of the
\ntrip we spotted a Northern gannet<\/a> (Morus bassanus<\/i>), which despite is
\nkind of a common species of bird during this time of the year, it usually avoids boats presence.<\/span><\/div>\n
\n<\/span> <\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n
\n<\/a><\/div>\n
\nBottlenose dolphins surfacing<\/i><\/div>\n
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\n<\/a><\/div>\n
\nBottlenose dolphin behind our boat Bulo<\/i><\/div>\n
\n
<\/i><\/div>\n
\n<\/a><\/div>\n
\nCommon dolphins beside our boat Jo\u00e3o vigia<\/i><\/div>\n
\n
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\n<\/a><\/div>\n
\nNorthern gannet (Morus bassanus)<\/i><\/div>\n
\n
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\nIn the afternoon, we had again three boats, but the clouds showed up reducing the visibility that is essential to our lookouts. Nevertheless, we could make it and we could re-encounter the same groups of bottlenose dolphins and two groups of common dolphins. The common dolphins were again really interested in us, and our tourists could enjoy them despite the weather conditions. Besides these encounters, one of our boats found a silver scabbardfish (Lepidopus caudatus<\/i>), as happened a few days ago.<\/span><\/div>\n
\nToday’s best news is that the Cory’s shearwaters <\/a>(Calonectris diomedea<\/i>), which Azorean population represents about 60-70% of the world population, keep arriving from their annual migration routes, and now they are already one of the most common sea birds around these islands, since during the lasts days their numbers have highly increased. <\/span><\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n
\nMore good news is that the water becoming very rich in food such as algae ( as we could see by the water’s green colouration) which feeds the rest of the food chain. It is undoubtedly a good signal for the presence of baleen whales… will we see them on the next trip?<\/span><\/div>\n
\n
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\n<\/a><\/div>\n
\nA bottlenose dolphin looking at one of our boats<\/i><\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n
\n<\/a><\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n
\n<\/a><\/div>\n
\n A fishing boat<\/i>
\n <\/div>\n

<\/a>
\n                                                     <\/span>Cory\u00b4s shearwater<\/i> (Calonectris diomedea)<\/i><\/p>\n

\n     <\/i><\/div>\n
\n<\/a><\/div>\n
\n
<\/i>
\n <\/i><\/a><\/div>\n
\n <\/div>\n
\n<\/a><\/div>\n
\n A big group of Cory\u00b4s sheawater flying close to the shore<\/i><\/div>\n
\n<\/i> <\/div>\n
\n<\/a><\/div>\n
\n <\/div>\n
\n<\/a><\/div>\n
\nThe beautiful landscape of Mosteiros<\/i><\/div>\n
\n
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\nCommon dolphin under the green water footage<\/i><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After a few days of bad weather, today the rain and the wind gave us a small break…\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9389,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[8,3,10,4,244,79,289,28],"yoast_head":"\nSocial dolphins and many Cory's shearwater coming back to the Azores - Azores Whales<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/social-dolphins-and-many-corys\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Social dolphins and many Cory's shearwater coming back to the Azores - Azores Whales\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"After a few days of bad weather, today the rain and the wind gave us a small break…\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/social-dolphins-and-many-corys\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Azores Whales\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2014-03-14T22:42:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2019-11-22T22:31:24+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/MG_1006.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"460\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"268\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\">\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"2 minutes\">\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/\",\"name\":\"Azores Whales\",\"description\":\"Azores Whale Watching Blog\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}\",\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/social-dolphins-and-many-corys\/#primaryimage\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/MG_1006.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/MG_1006.jpg\",\"width\":460,\"height\":268},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/social-dolphins-and-many-corys\/#webpage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/social-dolphins-and-many-corys\/\",\"name\":\"Social dolphins and many Cory's shearwater coming back to the Azores - 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