{"id":2343,"date":"2009-06-30T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-30T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/30\/observations-june-09\/"},"modified":"2019-11-22T22:27:20","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T22:27:20","slug":"observations-june-09","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/observations-june-09\/","title":{"rendered":"June 2009 sighting statistics"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\" trbidi=\"on\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_oP1dI2XxmSE\/StSYhN_yCBI\/AAAAAAAAAjQ\/uPxLKTf_PU0\/s1600-h\/Obsv.Juin09.jpg\" onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" height=\"413\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5392102350329612306\" src=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/Obsv.Juin09.jpg\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nJune has been a busy month of whale watching, full of many great whale and dolphin sightings. This month we had encounters with 12 different cetacean species (6 whale and 6 dolphin species), making this month even better than the last two. Like last month the most sighted dolphin was the bottlenose dolphin, and the most sighted whale was the sperm whale, both of which are resident in the Azores. Sighting frequencies (percent of days sighted of all the days we went to sea) of all species can be seen in the graph above and common names are listed below (species most sighted are listed first):<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<\/div>\n<ul>\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\/rissos-dolphin.html\">Risso&#8217;s dolphin<\/a> (<i>Grampus griseus<\/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\/pilot-whale-spp.html\">Pilot whale<\/a> (<i>Globicephala macrorhynchus<\/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\/striped-dolphin.html\">Striped dolphin<\/a> (<i>Stenella coeruleoalba<\/i>)<\/li>\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\/fin-whale.html\">Fin whale<\/a> (<i>Balaenoptera physalus<\/i>)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/azoreswhales.blogspot.pt\/2007\/07\/sei-whale.html\">Sei whale<\/a> (<i>Balaenoptera borealis<\/i>)<\/li>\n<li>Beaked whale species (<i>Mesoplodon species<\/i>)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/azoreswhales.blogspot.pt\/2007\/01\/blue-whale.html\">Blue whale<\/a> (<i>Balaenoptera musculus<\/i>)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/azoreswhales.blogspot.pt\/2007\/07\/humpback-whale.html\">Humpback whale<\/a> (<i>Megaptera novaeangliae<\/i>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>\nIt has been great to still see so many baleen whales (blue whale, fin whale, sei whale, humpback whale) still passing the Azores, as we are now reaching the end of the season for their migration past the Azores.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"June has been a busy month of whale watching, full of many great whale and dolphin sightings. 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