{"id":2246,"date":"2010-12-31T16:02:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-31T16:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/31\/last-tour-of-2010-and-december-sighting\/"},"modified":"2019-11-22T22:27:46","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T22:27:46","slug":"last-tour-of-2010-and-december-sighting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/last-tour-of-2010-and-december-sighting\/","title":{"rendered":"Last tour of 2010 and December sighting statistics"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"font-family: arial; text-align: justify;\">\nThis morning we had our last whale watching tour of 2010. Visibility wasn&#8217;t the greatest, making it difficult to find animals. But we did manage to encounter a small group of our resident bottlenose dolphins, as well as a loggerhead turtle.<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/DSC_1275-1024x683.jpg\" onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5556879820148930450\" src=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/DSC_1275-1024x683.jpg\" style=\"cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 267px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 78%;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial; font-style: italic;\">Bottlenose dolphin seen on this morning&#8217;s tour<\/span> <\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<span style=\"font-family: arial;\"><br \/><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">Todays encounter brings us to a total of 6 cetacean species for the month:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"font-family: arial;\">\n<li>sperm whales (<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Physeter macrocephalus<\/span>)<\/li>\n<li>Pilot whales (<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Globicephala macrorhynchus<\/span>)<\/li>\n<li>Risso&#8217;s dolphins (<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Grampus griseus<\/span>)<\/li>\n<li>Atlantic spotted dolphins (<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Stenella frontalis<\/span>)<\/li>\n<li>Bottlenose dolphins (<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Tursiops truncatus<\/span>)<\/li>\n<li>Common dolphins (<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Delphinus delphis<\/span>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_OqDHA8UhOsQ\/TR4C5NDBbHI\/AAAAAAAAAUo\/_W-63-7t6ho\/s1600\/Dezembro%2Bsightings%2Bgraph.bmp\" onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5556882171999906930\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_OqDHA8UhOsQ\/TR4C5NDBbHI\/AAAAAAAAAUo\/_W-63-7t6ho\/s1600\/Dezembro%2Bsightings%2Bgraph.bmp\" style=\"cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 255px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-family: arial; text-align: justify;\">\nNot bad considering we only had 5 tour during the month of December due to the unsettled weather and lower passanger numbers which is typical for this time of the year.<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_OqDHA8UhOsQ\/TR4AwBcf_JI\/AAAAAAAAAUY\/AGQL2LpnHVQ\/s1600\/December%2Bstatistics%2Bgraph.bmp\" onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\"><br \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This morning we had our last whale watching tour of 2010. 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