{"id":1930,"date":"2012-09-30T17:35:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-30T17:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/30\/september-2012-sighting-statistics\/"},"modified":"2019-11-22T22:29:20","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T22:29:20","slug":"september-2012-sighting-statistics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/september-2012-sighting-statistics\/","title":{"rendered":"September 2012 sighting statistics"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\" trbidi=\"on\">\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nThis past month the weather has allowed us to go to the sea on 24 of the 30 days of September. During these days we have encountered 8 different cetacean species (4 species of whale and 4 species of dolphin). As well as our regular sightings of resident species such as the <a href=\"http:\/\/azoreswhales.blogspot.pt\/2007\/07\/sperm-whale.html\">sperm whale<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/azoreswhales.blogspot.pt\/2007\/07\/common-dolphin.html\">common dolphin<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/azoreswhales.blogspot.pt\/2007\/07\/bottlenose-dolphin.html\">bottlenose dolphin<\/a> we also had surprise encounters with a <a href=\"http:\/\/azoreswhales.blogspot.pt\/2007\/01\/blue-whale.html\">blue whale<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/azoreswhales.blogspot.pt\/2007\/07\/sei-whale.html\">sei whale<\/a> that were passing the area.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/9-Setembro-2012-1024x669.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img border=\"0\" height=\"417\" src=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/9-Setembro-2012-1024x669.jpg\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/azoreswhales.blogspot.pt\/2007\/07\/common-dolphin.html\">Common dolphin<\/a> (<i>Delphinus delphis<\/i>) &#8211; 88% sighting frequency<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/azoreswhales.blogspot.pt\/2007\/07\/bottlenose-dolphin.html\">Bottlenose dolphin<\/a> (<i>Tursiops truncatus<\/i>) &#8211; 46% sighting frequency<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/azoreswhales.blogspot.pt\/2007\/07\/atlantic-spotted-dolphin.html\">Atlantic spotted dolphin<\/a> (<i>Stenella frontalis<\/i>) &#8211; 42% sighting frequency<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/azoreswhales.blogspot.pt\/2007\/07\/striped-dolphin.html\">Striped dolphin<\/a> (<i>Stenella coeruleoalba<\/i>) &#8211; 13% sighting frequency<\/li>\n<li>Beaked whale species (<i>Mesoplodon sp<\/i>.) &#8211; 4% sighting frequency<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/azoreswhales.blogspot.pt\/2007\/07\/sperm-whale.html\">Sperm whale<\/a> (<i>Physeter macrocephalus<\/i>) &#8211; 46% sighting frequency<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/azoreswhales.blogspot.pt\/2007\/01\/blue-whale.html\">Blue whale<\/a> (<i>Balaenoptera musculus<\/i>) &#8211; 4% sighting frequency<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/azoreswhales.blogspot.pt\/2007\/07\/sei-whale.html\">Sei whale<\/a> (<i>Balaenoptera borealis<\/i>) &#8211; 4% sighting frequency<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This past month the weather has allowed us to go to the sea on 24 of the 30&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5833,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[9,99,143,3,10,4,6,32,242,76],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v16.2 - 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