{"id":492,"date":"2018-06-12T20:49:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-12T20:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/12\/for-first-time-this-year-we-saw-pilo\/"},"modified":"2019-11-22T22:37:52","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T22:37:52","slug":"for-first-time-this-year-we-saw-pilo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/for-first-time-this-year-we-saw-pilo\/","title":{"rendered":"For the first time this year we saw pilot whales and also saw four Sei whales"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nOne more day with perfect weather conditions in S\u00e3o Miguel Island.<\/span><\/div>\n
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\nIn the morning tour we started with risso’s dolphins<\/a>, one of
\nour resident species. This dolphins were very calm in the surface and moving
\naround the boats, something that you don’t see so often in this species,
\nnormaly they keep the distance. <\/span>
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\n<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n
\nRisso\u00b4s dolphin <\/b><\/span><\/div>\n


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\nWe continued and found our second specie of the
\nday, the <\/span>bottlenose dolphins<\/a> (also a resident species). It was a very big pod
\nand were spread out in a very big area. They were very active, jumping around
\nand playng with the boat. <\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\n<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n
\nWatching Bottlenose dolohins<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n

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\n<\/div>\n
\nStriped dolphin jumping<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n

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\n <\/b><\/span>Striped dolphins very active<\/b><\/div>\n

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\nStriped dolphin jumping<\/b><\/div>\n

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\n<\/div>\n
\nA pod of Striped dolphins <\/b><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\nFor the first time this year we saw pilot whales<\/a>!
\nThey were floating in the surface of the water for a while and started so move
\nand dive very slowley. A very normal behaviour of this species.<\/span>
\n
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\n<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n
\nPilot whales <\/b><\/span><\/div>\n

\n<\/a><\/p>\n

\nPilot whales <\/b><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n
\nIn our afternoon tour we started again with the risso’s
\ndolphin having the same behaviour, when the where under water almost look like
\nghosts because of their white coloration. <\/span><\/div>\n
\n
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\nThe bottlenose dolphins were also
\npart of the afternoon tour but this time it was a very small pod and were not
\nvery interested in the boats, so we had to respect them and leave them alone. <\/span><\/div>\n
\n
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\nWe went out to try to find some whales but we end up to encounter a very big
\npiece of marine garbage (it looked like part of a ship, and it was impossible
\nto pick it up) associated with dozens of different species of fishes.
\nUnfortunetley garbage (mostly plastic) it’s what we found the most in our
\noceans and some of the marine life started to see the plastics as their new
\nhomes… almost becoming new ecossystems of our oceans.<\/span>
\n
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\n
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\n
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\n
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\nIn Pico Island, in the morning we went swimming with dolphins. We swam with Striped, Common and Risso’s dolphins. We also encountered tree Sperm whales with a calf.<\/span><\/p>\n
\n<\/div>\n

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\n<\/a><\/div>\n

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\n<\/a><\/div>\n

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\nAnd in the afternoon, in our Whale watching tour, we saw four Sei whales<\/a>, five Sperm whales and Common, Bottlenose and Risso’s dolphins!<\/span>
\n
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\n<\/a><\/p>\n

\nSei whale<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n

\n<\/a><\/p>\n

\nSperm Whale tail<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n
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\nPhotos by David Rodrigues and Rui Santos <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One more day with perfect weather conditions in S\u00e3o Miguel Island. 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