{"id":723,"date":"2017-07-28T17:49:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-28T17:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/28\/a-rare-encounter-with-brydes-whale\/"},"modified":"2019-11-22T22:36:40","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T22:36:40","slug":"a-rare-encounter-with-brydes-whale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/a-rare-encounter-with-brydes-whale\/","title":{"rendered":"A rare encounter with a Bryde’s whale"},"content":{"rendered":"
\nToday we had a rare encounter with a Bryde’s (pronounced broo-dess) whale<\/a> off the south coast of S\u00e3o Miguel Island. This is considered to be more of a tropical whale species, one that only visits the Azores some years when we have their prefered conditions. The last year that we encountered them here was in 2013. But the Bryde’s whale wasn’t the only whale species that we encountered, as we also had many of our resident sperm whales<\/a> around in the morning, including at least 3 small calves. We got to see several tails from the adult sperm whales in the group, which is be great for our photo-ID research. As for dolphins, there were a lot of them around today. During both the morning and afternoon we encountered large feeding groups of Atlantic spotted dolphins<\/a> together with Cory’s shearwaters<\/a>. In the afternoon the feeding frenzy also included a group of common dolphins<\/a>. <\/div>\n
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\nPhotos from today:<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n
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\nBryde’s whale head<\/i><\/div>\n

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\nBryde’s whale<\/i><\/div>\n

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\nBryde’s whale surfacing<\/i><\/div>\n

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\nSperm whale with its characteristic angled blow<\/i><\/div>\n

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\nSperm whale adult female and calf pair<\/i><\/div>\n

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\nSperm whale tail<\/i><\/div>\n

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\nAtlantic spotted dolphin watching<\/i><\/div>\n

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\nSeeing the Atlantic spotted dolphin from aboard our catamaran<\/i><\/div>\n

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\nAtlantic spotted dolphins<\/i><\/div>\n

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\nAtlantic spotted dolhins and Cory’s shearwaters feeding together<\/i><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Today we had a rare encounter with a Bryde’s (pronounced broo-dess) whale off the south coast of S\u00e3o…\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18868,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[9,197,10,20,4,242],"yoast_head":"\nA rare encounter with a Bryde's whale - 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\/a-rare-encounter-with-brydes-whale\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"A rare encounter with a Bryde's whale - Azores Whales\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Today we had a rare encounter with a Bryde’s (pronounced broo-dess) whale off the south coast of S\u00e3o…\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/a-rare-encounter-with-brydes-whale\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Azores Whales\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2017-07-28T17:49:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2019-11-22T22:36:40+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/DSC_0177-CC3B3pia.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"640\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"426\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\">\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"1 minute\">\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/\",\"name\":\"Azores Whales\",\"description\":\"Azores Whale Watching Blog\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}\",\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/a-rare-encounter-with-brydes-whale\/#primaryimage\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/DSC_0177-CC3B3pia.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/DSC_0177-CC3B3pia.png\",\"width\":640,\"height\":426},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/a-rare-encounter-with-brydes-whale\/#webpage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/a-rare-encounter-with-brydes-whale\/\",\"name\":\"A rare encounter with a Bryde's whale - 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