{"id":270,"date":"2019-03-24T18:39:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-24T18:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/24\/common-dolphins-common-dolphins-common\/"},"modified":"2019-11-22T22:39:04","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T22:39:04","slug":"common-dolphins-common-dolphins-common","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/common-dolphins-common-dolphins-common\/","title":{"rendered":"Common dolphins, common dolphins common dolphins!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background: white;\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background: white;\">\n<span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;\">Today we had another great day with a rough sea!&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background: white;\">\n<span style=\"color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;\">In the morning we went out and spotted a really large pod of common dolphins playing in the sea!&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background: white;\">\n<span style=\"color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background: white;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/2-4-1024x576.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;\"><img border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"900\" data-original-width=\"1600\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/2-4-1024x576.png\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background: white;\">\n<span style=\"color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background: white;\">\n<span style=\"color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;\">Then, our spotter had another species for us so we headed in the direction they asked us to go. There we encountered a different species of dolphins, they were our second resident species, the bottlenose dolphins! They were <\/span>bowriding<span style=\"color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;\"> and traveling. In the morning we also had a swimming with dolphins trip! We managed to find the common dolphins very close to the coast! Here the dolphins were feeding so we had lots of cory\u00b4s shearwaters shooting underwater, right next to the common dolphins!<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background: white;\">\n<span style=\"color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/1-4-1024x576.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"900\" data-original-width=\"1600\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/1-4-1024x576.png\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<span style=\"background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\">In the afternoon the sea got a little rougher, but our spotters managed to find us some common dolphins, again! But this time they were in a large feeding frenzy! We could not keep up with the number of dolphins and birds at the surface.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/4-3-1024x576.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"900\" data-original-width=\"1600\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/4-3-1024x576.png\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background: white;\">\n<span style=\"color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background: white;\">\n<span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;\">Additionally, we could even see the fish jumping between the dolphins, and birds were flying away with lots of fish in their beaks! It must have been quite a feast for them.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background: white;\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background: white;\">\n<span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;\">Then having a closer look, we managed to identify some other species. In the picture below, can you identify the three species?<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background: white;\">\n<span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background: white;\">\n<span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/3-3-1024x576.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; font-size: medium; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;\"><img border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"900\" data-original-width=\"1600\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/3-3-1024x576.png\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background: white;\">\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background: white;\">\n<span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;\">In the photograph above one of our biologists managed to capture a common dolphin jumping, a Cory\u00b4s shearwater, and a Manx shearwater (Puffinus puffinus)! One of the rare shearwaters that are seen in the Azores, and only a few nesting grounds are known here on the Azores.<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Today we had another great day with a rough sea!&nbsp; In the morning we went out and spotted&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22714,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[8,23,10,45,4],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v16.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Common dolphins, common dolphins common dolphins! - Azores Whales<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/common-dolphins-common-dolphins-common\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Common dolphins, common dolphins common dolphins! 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