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\n<\/a>Today in the morning we were out on our catamaran “Cetus” and we encountered 4 different species of cetaceans. We barely left the marina when we spotted the first species; the well known common dolphin<\/a>. The group was small and not as curious as this species usually is, so we watched them for a while and then went west to a where our vigia (onshore lookout)<\/a> spotted orcas<\/a> (also known as killer whales) for us. The orcas were as amazing as earlier (see our previous blog posts to see our encounters with the same group), coming very close to the boat and playing around (as you can see in the photos below). After we traveled more to southwest to an area where the vigia had seen some sperm whales<\/a>. While we were waiting for them to surface we encountered a group of striped dolphins<\/a> jumping and traveling fast. We left the area of the sperm whales and started going back when we came across a group of 3 sei whales<\/a> coming close to our boat. We all saw them very well before we made the trip back to Ponta Delgada.<\/p>\n

See our video from the past days of sighting below, or on youtube by clicking HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\nPhotos from today:<\/div>\n

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\nOne of the female orcas investigating the back of our boat<\/em><\/div>\n

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\nOrca right next to our boat, looking up at us through the water<\/em><\/div>\n

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\n Male approaching the side of our boat<\/em><\/div>\n

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\nLobtailing behaviour<\/em><\/div>\n

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\n One of the males we know very well now<\/em><\/div>\n

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\n 3 orca of the group<\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\nLooking for sperm whales<\/em><\/div>\n
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\nStriped dolphin in front of our bow<\/em><\/div>\n
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\nStriped dolphin (stenella coeruleoalba)<\/em><\/div>\n
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\nSei whale (Balaenoptera borealis)<\/em><\/div>\n
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\nSei whale from behind (showing the two blowholes characteristic of all baleen whales)<\/em><\/div>\n

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\nSei whale<\/em><\/div>\n

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\nCruising on back on our catamaran along the beautiful coastline of S\u00e3o Miguel<\/em><\/div>\n

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\nOne of our whale watchers from Holland<\/em><\/div>\n

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\nCory’s shearwater (Calonectris diomedea borealis)<\/em><\/div>\n

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\nJuvenile yellow-legged gull (Larus michahellis atlantis)<\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Today in the morning we were out on our catamaran “Cetus” and we encountered 4 different species of cetaceans.…\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6716,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[8,179,201,10,20,4,120,184,79,6,76,289],"yoast_head":"\n4 species including orcas and sei whales - 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\/4-species-including-orcas-and-sei-whales\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"4 species including orcas and sei whales - Azores Whales\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Today in the morning we were out on our catamaran “Cetus” and we encountered 4 different species of cetaceans.…\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/4-species-including-orcas-and-sei-whales\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Azores Whales\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2013-04-20T16:55:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2019-11-22T22:29:49+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/DSC_0058-C\u00f3pia.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"133\" \/>\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\/4-species-including-orcas-and-sei-whales\/#primaryimage\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/DSC_0058-Copia.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/DSC_0058-Copia.jpg\",\"width\":200,\"height\":133},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/4-species-including-orcas-and-sei-whales\/#webpage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/4-species-including-orcas-and-sei-whales\/\",\"name\":\"4 species including orcas and sei whales - 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