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\nToday we had encounters with many dolphins. In the morning we encountered common dolphins<\/a> and Atlantic spotted dolphins<\/a>. Both species were in large groups, as is very common this time of the year. In both the morning and afternoon the common dolphins were feeding at the surface so that we were able to observe a big feeding frenzy together with our local seabirds the Cory’s shearwater<\/a> and yellow-legged gull. Many times we were able to see the birds diving down and successfully grabbing fish from beneath the surface. One of our biologists managed to film the feeding frenzy on the school of fish just beneath the boat that she was on.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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\nOur zodiac with biologist Clara filming underwater over the side of the boat<\/em><\/div>\n
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\nFeeding frenzy – Cory’s shearwater with common dolphins<\/em><\/div>\n
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\nCory’s shearwater taking off with a fish<\/em><\/div>\n
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\nCory’s shearwater (right) with a fish and a yellow-legged gull trying to steal the fish<\/em><\/div>\n

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\nYellow-legged gull attacking the Cory’s shearwater in attempt to steal its fish<\/div>\n

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Common dolphins feeding <\/span><\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
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Common dolphin<\/span><\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
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Common dolphins looking the fish under our boat<\/span><\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
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fish hiding under our boat<\/span><\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
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\nA foggy day on S\u00e3o Miguel Island<\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Today we had encounters with many dolphins. In the morning we encountered common dolphins and Atlantic spotted dolphins.…\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7786,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[8,9,10,20,4,79,289],"yoast_head":"\nDolphin feeding frenzy - 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\/dolphin-feeding-frenzy\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Dolphin feeding frenzy - Azores Whales\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Today we had encounters with many dolphins. 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