{"id":629,"date":"2017-11-30T15:01:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-30T15:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/30\/november-2017-sighting-statistics\/"},"modified":"2020-01-28T16:22:04","modified_gmt":"2020-01-28T17:22:04","slug":"november-2017-sighting-statistics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/november-2017-sighting-statistics\/","title":{"rendered":"November 2017 sighting statistics"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nWe are experiencing a quiet end to the month of November, with very few tours due the weather. However, the tours that we did have throughout the month were very good ones, and in total we encountered 9 different whale and dolphin species. Each tour was really different, with no particular species being sighted a lot more often than others. We had a few days with our resident <a href=\"http:\/\/azoreswhales.blogspot.pt\/2007\/07\/sperm-whale.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sperm whales<\/a>, a few with migratory <a href=\"http:\/\/azoreswhales.blogspot.pt\/2007\/07\/sei-whale.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sei whales<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/azoreswhales.blogspot.pt\/2007\/07\/fin-whale.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">fin whales<\/a>, a day with <a href=\"http:\/\/azoreswhales.blogspot.pt\/2007\/07\/pilot-whale-spp.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pilot whales<\/a> and even an encounter with a <a href=\"http:\/\/azoreswhales.blogspot.pt\/2007\/07\/humpback-whale.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">humpback whale<\/a>. Dolphins were also around in large numbers, including the <a href=\"http:\/\/azoreswhales.blogspot.pt\/2007\/07\/atlantic-spotted-dolphin.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Atlantic spotted dolphins<\/a> who were probably enjoying the extended summer weather that we were lucky to have this year.<\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/1129Novembro2017sightingsgraph.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"522\" data-original-width=\"794\" height=\"420\" src=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/1129Novembro2017sightingsgraph.png\" width=\"640\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/azoreswhales.blogspot.pt\/2007\/07\/common-dolphin.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Common dolphin (<i>Delphinus delphis<\/i>)<\/a> &#8211; 42%<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/azoreswhales.blogspot.pt\/2007\/07\/bottlenose-dolphin.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bottlenose dolphin (<i>Tursiops truncatus<\/i>)<\/a> &#8211; 42%<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/azoreswhales.blogspot.pt\/2007\/07\/atlantic-spotted-dolphin.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Atlantic spotted dolphin (<i>Stenella frontalis<\/i>)<\/a> &#8211; 21%<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/azoreswhales.blogspot.pt\/2007\/07\/rissos-dolphin.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Risso&#8217;s dolphin (<i>Grampus griseus<\/i>)<\/a> &#8211; 21%<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/azoreswhales.blogspot.pt\/2007\/07\/pilot-whale-spp.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pilot whale (<i>Globicephala sp<\/i>.)<\/a> &#8211; 5%<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/azoreswhales.blogspot.pt\/2007\/07\/sperm-whale.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sperm whale (<i>Physeter macrocephalus<\/i>)<\/a> &#8211; 37%<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/azoreswhales.blogspot.pt\/2007\/07\/humpback-whale.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Humpback whale (<i>Megaptera novaeangliae<\/i>)<\/a> &#8211; 5%<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/azoreswhales.blogspot.pt\/2007\/07\/sei-whale.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sei whale (<i>Balaenoptera borealis<\/i>)<\/a> &#8211; 26%<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/azoreswhales.blogspot.pt\/2007\/07\/fin-whale.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fin whale (<i>Balaenoptera physalus<\/i>)<\/a> &#8211; 16%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We are experiencing a quiet end to the month of November, with very few tours due the weather.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19719,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[308,387],"tags":[179,27,4,90,35,6,32,242],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v16.2 - 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