{"id":2347,"date":"2009-03-31T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-31T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/31\/observations-marc\/"},"modified":"2019-11-22T22:27:20","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T22:27:20","slug":"observations-marc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/observations-marc\/","title":{"rendered":"March 2009 sighting statistics"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\" trbidi=\"on\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_oP1dI2XxmSE\/Si5FV0cFY-I\/AAAAAAAAAio\/m4HcJNXz4Z0\/s1600-h\/+obsv.mar%C3%A7o+09.jpg\" onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" height=\"450\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5345286048891364322\" src=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/obsv.mar\u00e7o-09.jpg\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nDuring our whale watching tours in March we have encountered 8 different cetacean species. The most encountered whale was our resident sperm whale, although we have also encountered fin whales as they are migrating past this time of the year. We have not encountered any other migratory baleen whales, but we have had surprise encounters with the very shy beaked whales (Cuvier&#8217;s beaked whales and True&#8217;s beaked whales). As always we have also sighted many dolphins in all of our tours (common dolphins were sighted every day we went to sea this month) to complete our tours. All 8 species sighted are listed below (ordered by those most encountered) and sighting frequencies (days encountered of all the day we went to sea) of these species can be seen in the graph above.<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/azoreswhales.blogspot.pt\/2007\/07\/common-dolphin.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Common dolphin<\/a> (<em>Delphinus delphis<\/em>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/azoreswhales.blogspot.pt\/2007\/07\/bottlenose-dolphin.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bottlenose dolphin<\/a> (<em>Tursiops truncatus<\/em>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/azoreswhales.blogspot.pt\/2007\/07\/sperm-whale.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sperm whale<\/a> (<em>Physeter macrocephalus<\/em>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/azoreswhales.blogspot.pt\/2007\/07\/rissos-dolphin.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Risso&#8217;s dolphin<\/a> (<em>Grampus griseus<\/em>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/azoreswhales.blogspot.pt\/2007\/07\/fin-whale.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fin whale<\/a> (<em>Balaenoptera physalus<\/em>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/azoreswhales.blogspot.pt\/2007\/07\/cuviers-beaked-whale.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cuvier&#8217;s beaked whale<\/a>&nbsp;(<em>Ziphius cavirostris<\/em>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/azoreswhales.blogspot.pt\/2007\/07\/trues-beaked-whale.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">True&#8217;s beaked whale<\/a> (<em>Mespolodon bidens<\/em>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/azoreswhales.blogspot.pt\/2007\/07\/striped-dolphin.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Striped dolphin<\/a> (<em>Stenella coerueoalba<\/em>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"During our whale watching tours in March we have encountered 8 different cetacean species. 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