{"id":1853,"date":"2013-04-30T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-30T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/30\/april-2013-sighting-statistics\/"},"modified":"2019-11-22T22:29:50","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T22:29:50","slug":"april-2013-sighting-statistics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/april-2013-sighting-statistics\/","title":{"rendered":"April 2013 sighting statistics"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\" trbidi=\"on\">\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: justify;\">\nIn April we have been lucky the times we have been able to go out on the sea. We have had some bad weather with strong wind and fog, just like in March, but still great sightings with 6 species of cetaceans, including a record number of sightings of orcas (read more about our orca sightings <a href=\"http:\/\/azoreswhales.blogspot.pt\/search\/label\/Orca-killer%20whale\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HERE<\/a>). We also encountered fin whales and sei whales, and dolphins.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: justify;\">\n<span style=\"font-family: inherit;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: justify;\">\n<span style=\"background-color: white; line-height: 19px;\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\">The following graph shows the sighting frequency (days sighted of all the days we went to sea) of those species seen this month. Sighting frequencies for each species are listed below<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: justify;\">\n<span style=\"background-color: white; line-height: 19px;\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\"><br \/><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/429-Abril-sighting-statistics-graph-1024x669.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img border=\"0\" height=\"418\" src=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/429-Abril-sighting-statistics-graph-1024x669.png\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/azoreswhales.blogspot.pt\/2007\/07\/fin-whale.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fin whale (<i>Balaenoptera physalus<\/i>)<\/a> &#8211; 40%<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/azoreswhales.blogspot.pt\/2007\/07\/sei-whale.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sei whale&nbsp;(<i>Balaenoptera borealis<\/i>)<\/a> &#8211; 10%<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/azoreswhales.blogspot.pt\/2007\/07\/orcakiller-whale.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Orca&nbsp;(<i>Orcinus orca<\/i>)<\/a> &#8211; 60%<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/azoreswhales.blogspot.pt\/2007\/07\/striped-dolphin.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Striped dolphin&nbsp;(<i>Stenella coeruleoalba<\/i>)<\/a> &#8211; 10%<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/azoreswhales.blogspot.pt\/2007\/07\/bottlenose-dolphin.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bottlenose dolphin (<i>Tursiops truncatus<\/i>)<\/a> &#8211; 30%<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/azoreswhales.blogspot.pt\/2007\/07\/common-dolphin.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Common dolphin (<i>Delphinus delphis<\/i>)<\/a> &#8211; 80%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/sightingsAbril-1024x792.jpeg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img border=\"0\" height=\"491\" src=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/sightingsAbril-1024x792.jpeg\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<i>Map of our cetacean sightings<\/i><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<b><br \/><\/b><br \/>\n<b>Video of the orca encounters of April<\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In April we have been lucky the times we have been able to go out on the sea.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6758,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[8,179,3,10,27,4,184,6,32,76],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v16.2 - 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