{"id":181,"date":"2019-06-03T10:02:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-03T10:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/03\/sighting-statistics-may-2019\/"},"modified":"2020-02-21T16:49:41","modified_gmt":"2020-02-21T17:49:41","slug":"sighting-statistics-may-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/sighting-statistics-may-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Sighting statistics May 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"color: black;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"color: black;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">May was a good month, only 3 days we could not go out.<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt;\"><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"color: black;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"color: black;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/GraficoMaio2019.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"672\" data-original-width=\"800\" height=\"536\" src=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/GraficoMaio2019.jpg\" width=\"640\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<span lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">We observed five different species of dolphins.&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<span lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Our<br \/>\nnumber one was again the <a href=\"https:\/\/azoreswhales.blogspot.com\/2007\/07\/common-dolphin.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Common dolphin<\/a> which we saw almost every day. Followed<br \/>\nby the <a href=\"https:\/\/azoreswhales.blogspot.com\/2007\/07\/bottlenose-dolphin.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bottlenose dolphins<\/a> which were our second most sighted.&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<span lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">We managed to<br \/>\nsee <a href=\"https:\/\/azoreswhales.blogspot.com\/2007\/07\/striped-dolphin.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Striped dolphins<\/a> on five days and two times the <a href=\"https:\/\/azoreswhales.blogspot.com\/2007\/07\/rissos-dolphin.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Risso\u2019s dolphins<\/a> and even<br \/>\non one day the Short-finned <a href=\"https:\/\/azoreswhales.blogspot.com\/2007\/07\/pilot-whale-spp.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pilot whales<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<span lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<span lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/azoreswhales.blogspot.com\/2007\/07\/sperm-whale.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sperm whales<\/a> were scarce at the<br \/>\nbeginning of the month but the last two weeks we enjoyed them on every tour.&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<span lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<span lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">This month we had two beaked whale sightings and one of them was a quite rare<br \/>\nspecies: \u200b A mother and a calf of <a href=\"https:\/\/azoreswhales.blogspot.com\/2007\/07\/trues-beaked-whale.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">True\u2019s beaked whales<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<span lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">May was an excellent<br \/>\nmonth to follow the baleen whales. We could register 5 different species like<br \/>\nthe rare <a href=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/en\/the-azores\/species-guide\/minke-whale\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Minke whale<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<span lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<span lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Especially the acrobatic <a href=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/en\/the-azores\/species-guide\/humpback-whale\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Humpback whales<\/a> were delighting<br \/>\neverybody.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<span lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/en\/the-azores\/species-guide\/fin-whale\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fin<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/azoreswhales.blogspot.com\/2007\/01\/blue-whale.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Blue whales<\/a> were passing more in the first half of the<br \/>\nmonth and the Sei whales in the second half.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/2019MaioMapa-1024x725.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"794\" data-original-width=\"1122\" height=\"452\" src=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/2019MaioMapa-1024x725.jpg\" width=\"640\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"background: white;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Let\u2019s see what June will<br \/>\nbring us! <a href=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/en\/whale-dolphin-watching-tours\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Join us<\/a> \ud83d\ude09&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"color: black;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"May was a good month, only 3 days we could not go out. 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