{"id":765,"date":"2017-06-15T17:36:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-15T17:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/15\/a-fantastic-day-with-diversity-of\/"},"modified":"2019-11-22T22:36:25","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T22:36:25","slug":"a-fantastic-day-with-diversity-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/a-fantastic-day-with-diversity-of\/","title":{"rendered":"A fantastic day with a diversity of species"},"content":{"rendered":"
\nToday was an amazing calm day out on the ocean which we spent in the company of 5 different cetacean species. The baleen whales are still around and today we saw the second largest of them all  – fin whales<\/a>. In the morning we encountered four of them travelling together and in the afternoon just one, but a very nice calm and curious one. We also encountered the second largest dolphin species,  the pilot whale<\/a>, during the morning tour, which was a nice surprise because we haven’t seen this species since April 15th. The third species of the day was the Risso’s dolphin<\/a>, which we also encountered in the morning. It was a nice small nursery group with 1 juvenile and 2 calves, one of them a very small newborn. The final two species of the day were our two most encountered species, our resident bottlenose dolphins<\/a> and common dolphins<\/a>, which were both encountered during both tours today. Again we got to see a lot of small babies of the common dolphins, one of our favourite things about this time of the year. <\/div>\n
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\nPhotos from the morning:<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n
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\nFin whales<\/i><\/div>\n

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\nFin whale<\/i><\/div>\n

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\nSome surface activity from two of the fin whales<\/i><\/div>\n

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\nFin whales<\/i><\/div>\n

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\nPilot whales<\/i><\/div>\n

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\nPilot whales<\/i><\/div>\n

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\nA very white adult Risso’s dolphin<\/i><\/div>\n

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\nNewborn Risso’s dolphin – still very wrinkly<\/i><\/div>\n

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\nRisso’s dolphins<\/i><\/div>\n

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\nBottlenose dolphin<\/i><\/div>\n
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\nPhotos from the afternoon:<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n
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\nFin whale, very curious around or zodiac boat<\/i><\/div>\n

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\nFin whale close to shore<\/i><\/div>\n

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\nA very calm fin whale, almost lying still at the surface<\/i><\/div>\n

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\nCommon dolphin<\/i><\/div>\n

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\nCurious common dolphins<\/i><\/div>\n

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\nCommon dolphin mother and calf pair<\/i><\/div>\n

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\nPortuguese man-o-war<\/a>, a common sight this time of the year<\/i><\/div>\n

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\nGreat shearwater<\/a>, a rare sight at this time of the year<\/i><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Today was an amazing calm day out on the ocean which we spent in the company of 5…\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18519,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[179,3,10,27,4,90,103,35,79],"yoast_head":"\nA fantastic day with a diversity of species - 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-fantastic-day-with-diversity-of\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"A fantastic day with a diversity of species - Azores Whales\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Today was an amazing calm day out on the ocean which we spent in the company of 5…\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/a-fantastic-day-with-diversity-of\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Azores Whales\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2017-06-15T17:36:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2019-11-22T22:36:25+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/DSC_0893-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-fantastic-day-with-diversity-of\/#primaryimage\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/DSC_0893-CC3B3pia.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/DSC_0893-CC3B3pia.png\",\"width\":640,\"height\":426},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/a-fantastic-day-with-diversity-of\/#webpage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/a-fantastic-day-with-diversity-of\/\",\"name\":\"A fantastic day with a diversity of species - 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