{"id":532,"date":"2018-05-08T14:58:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-08T14:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/08\/april-2018-sighting-and-statistics\/"},"modified":"2020-02-21T16:51:56","modified_gmt":"2020-02-21T17:51:56","slug":"april-2018-sighting-and-statistics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/april-2018-sighting-and-statistics\/","title":{"rendered":"April 2018 Sighting and statistics"},"content":{"rendered":"

This April was wonderful!<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nDuring this month of 2018, we already encountered 8 different whale and dolphin species in our Atlantic Ocean.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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\nThe champions of this month were our resident Common and Bottlenose dolphins.<\/div>\n
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\nOn the 3rd place, we have the Fin whales, our migratory species that appears so often during the Baleen Whale Season.<\/div>\n
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\nWe also received the visit of the Blue whales. Since the 22nd, we are seeing them every day.<\/div>\n
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\nWe had some surprises, like a Humpback whale<\/a> which from our photos we could determine it was a whale we saw here last year. It was also seen off Iceland in 2016.
\nWe had Minke whales<\/a>, although they are not encountered as frequently.  <\/div>\n
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\nOur statistics from April show that the most encountered species was our resident:<\/b><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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