{"id":2341,"date":"2009-08-31T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-31T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/31\/observations-august-09\/"},"modified":"2019-11-22T22:27:20","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T22:27:20","slug":"observations-august-09","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/observations-august-09\/","title":{"rendered":"August 2009 sighting statistics"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\" trbidi=\"on\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_oP1dI2XxmSE\/StSZx9MuKTI\/AAAAAAAAAjo\/0W205qOaH-c\/s1600-h\/Obv.August09.jpg\" onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" height=\"391\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5392103737389885746\" src=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/Obv.August09.jpg\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nThis August we great whale watching sighting statistics &#8211; 15 whale and dolphin species for the month! 8 whale species and 7 dolphin species. You will struggle to find another place in the world where you can see some many different whales and dolphins in such a short time period. Just see the big list of species below (listed in order of sighting frequency). The sighting frequencies of each species can be seen in the graph above. As you can see the four most sighted species were the sperm whale (resident here in the Azores), Atlantic spotted dolphin, bottlenose dolphin and common dolphin&#8230;<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/azoreswhales.blogspot.pt\/2007\/07\/atlantic-spotted-dolphin.html\">Atlantic spotted dolphin<\/a> (<i>Stenella frontalis<\/i>)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/azoreswhales.blogspot.pt\/2007\/07\/common-dolphin.html\">Common dolphin<\/a> (<i>Delphinus delphis<\/i>)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/azoreswhales.blogspot.pt\/2007\/07\/bottlenose-dolphin.html\">Bottlenose dolphin<\/a> (<i>Tursiops truncatus<\/i>)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/azoreswhales.blogspot.pt\/2007\/07\/sperm-whale.html\">Sperm whale<\/a> (<i>Physeter macrocephalus<\/i>)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/azoreswhales.blogspot.pt\/2007\/07\/rissos-dolphin.html\">Risso&#8217;s dolphin<\/a> (<i>Grampus griseus<\/i>)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/azoreswhales.blogspot.pt\/2007\/07\/pilot-whale-spp.html\">Pilot whale<\/a> (<i>Globicphala macrorhynchus<\/i>)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/azoreswhales.blogspot.pt\/2007\/07\/striped-dolphin.html\">Striped dolphin<\/a> (<i>Stenella coeruleoalba<\/i>)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/azoreswhales.blogspot.pt\/2007\/07\/brydes-whale.html\">Bryde&#8217;s whale<\/a> (<i>Balaenoptera edeni<\/i>)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/azoreswhales.blogspot.pt\/2007\/07\/fin-whale.html\">Fin whale<\/a> (<i>Balaenoptera physalus<\/i>)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/azoreswhales.blogspot.pt\/2007\/07\/false-orcafalse-killer-whale.html\">False killer whale<\/a> (Pseudorca crassidens)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/azoreswhales.blogspot.pt\/2007\/07\/trues-beaked-whale.html\">True&#8217;s beaked whale<\/a> (<i>Mesoplodon bidens<\/i>)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/azoreswhales.blogspot.pt\/2007\/07\/northern-bottlenose-whale.html\">Northern bottlenose whale<\/a> (<i>Hyperoodon ampullatus<\/i>)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/azoreswhales.blogspot.pt\/2007\/07\/minke-whale.html\">Minke whale<\/a> (<i>Balaenoptera acutorostrata<\/i>)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/azoreswhales.blogspot.pt\/2007\/07\/humpback-whale.html\">Humpback whale<\/a> (<i>Megaptera novaeangliae<\/i>)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/azoreswhales.blogspot.pt\/2007\/07\/sei-whale.html\">Sei whale<\/a> (<i>Balaenoptera borealis<\/i>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This August we great whale watching sighting statistics &#8211; 15 whale and dolphin species for the month! 8&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3421,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[179,99,162,27,30,26,118,244,6,32,242],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v16.2 - 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