{"id":65790,"date":"2021-08-09T20:44:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-09T21:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/?p=65790"},"modified":"2022-12-07T17:16:33","modified_gmt":"2022-12-07T18:16:33","slug":"our-first-brydes-whale-of-the-season-in-pico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/our-first-brydes-whale-of-the-season-in-pico\/","title":{"rendered":"Our first Bryde&#8217;s whale of the season in Pico"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The two past days we still had with some wind and tricky sea conditions in the south of Pico. Luckily, with the precious help of our lookouts and our directional hydrophone to listen to the echolocation clicks of the Sperm whale, we were always able to find the most emblematic whale in the Azores! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-3 is-cropped\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/pico-whales-futurismo-1.png\"><img width=\"900\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/pico-whales-futurismo-1.png\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"65791\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/pico-whales-futurismo-1.png\" data-link=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=65791\" class=\"wp-image-65791\" srcset=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/pico-whales-futurismo-1.png 900w, 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data-full-url=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/pico-whales-futurismo-9.png\" data-link=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=65803\" class=\"wp-image-65803\" srcset=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/pico-whales-futurismo-9.png 900w, https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/pico-whales-futurismo-9-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/pico-whales-futurismo-9-768x512.png 768w, https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/pico-whales-futurismo-9-380x253.png 380w, https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/pico-whales-futurismo-9-800x533.png 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Beside this, we also encountered groups of Risso&#8217;s dolphins, Bottlenose dolphins and Pilot whales, and we had our first <a href=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/en\/the-azores\/species-guide\/brydes-whale\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Bryde&#8217;s whale<\/a> of the season. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/pico-whales-futurismo-4.png\"><img width=\"900\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/pico-whales-futurismo-4.png\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"65805\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/pico-whales-futurismo-4.png\" data-link=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=65805\" class=\"wp-image-65805\" srcset=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/pico-whales-futurismo-4.png 900w, 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