{"id":769,"date":"2017-06-11T17:53:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-11T17:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/11\/seven-species-and-matc\/"},"modified":"2019-11-22T22:36:25","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T22:36:25","slug":"seven-species-and-matc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/seven-species-and-matc\/","title":{"rendered":"Seven species and a photo-ID match!"},"content":{"rendered":"
\nToday we had a
\nfantastic day on the sea! June has been great so far; in the nine days that we
\nwent out we have seen already nine different species of cetaceans. <\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n
\nAt this time of the year
\nthe chance to see a variety of different species is high, the baleen whales are
\nstill passing by while they are migrating to the North and the seasonal species
\nare starting to arrive to the Azores to spend the summer. <\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n
\nIn the morning tour we
\nsaw sperm whales<\/a>, which is the largest animal in the world with teeth. We found
\nfour adults who were logging at the surface and we could even see the tail from
\ntwo of them!<\/div>\n
\nThe list of the
\ndolphins seen from the different boats in the morning is long, we saw two of
\nthe resident species: common<\/a> and bottlenose dolphins<\/a> and two seasonal species:
\nspotted<\/a> and striped <\/a>dolphins.<\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n
\nIn the afternoon tour,
\nwe added two more species to the list. These two species of whales have different
\nrecords; the fin whale<\/a> is the second largest animal in the world (growing up to
\n27 meters) and the humpback whale<\/a> is the whale with the largest pectoral fins
\n(up to 5 meters in length). <\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n

<\/p>\n

\nOur catamaran Quatro
\nVentos was really lucky to find the humpback whale very close to the shore (in
\nan area just 60 metres deep). We could see the tail many times, that allowed us
\nto take pictures for photo identification. We have fantastic news, we found a match
\nto a whale that we saw today, it was seen 27 days ago in Cape Verde! Another comparison later confirmed that this same humpback whale was also seen in Norway in 2014. How amazing
\nis that!?<\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n
\nPhotos from today:<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n
\n
<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n
\n<\/a><\/div>\n
\nSperm whale about to dive<\/i><\/div>\n
\n
<\/i><\/div>\n
\n<\/a><\/div>\n
\n Sperm whale blowing<\/i><\/div>\n
\n
<\/i><\/div>\n
\n<\/a><\/div>\n
\n“Sperm whale watching”<\/i><\/div>\n
\n
<\/i><\/div>\n
\n<\/a><\/div>\n
\nBottlenose dolphins at the surface<\/i> <\/div>\n

<\/p>\n

\n<\/a><\/div>\n
\n
<\/i><\/div>\n
\n<\/a><\/div>\n
\nAnother tail of a sperm whale from the morning<\/i><\/div>\n
\n
<\/i><\/div>\n
\n<\/a><\/div>\n
\nFin whales<\/i>
\n
<\/i>
\n<\/p>\n
\n<\/a><\/div>\n
\nHumpback whale blow – luckily spotted by one of our biologists in the afternoon<\/i><\/div>\n

<\/p>\n

\n<\/a><\/div>\n
\nThe humpback whale<\/i><\/div>\n

<\/p>\n

\n<\/a><\/div>\n

<\/p>\n

\n<\/a><\/div>\n
\nHumpback whale raising its tail to dive<\/i><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\n
<\/i><\/div>\n
\n<\/a><\/div>\n
\n Sperm whale in the afternoon<\/i><\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n
\n
<\/i><\/div>\n
\n
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\n
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