{"id":778,"date":"2017-06-01T09:04:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-01T09:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/01\/may-2017-sightings-statistics\/"},"modified":"2019-11-22T22:36:22","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T22:36:22","slug":"may-2017-sightings-statistics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/may-2017-sightings-statistics\/","title":{"rendered":"May 2017 sightings statistics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>May has been another fantastic month for whale and dolphin watching off S\u00e3o Miguel Island in the Azores. In total we encountered 9 different cetacean species (5 whale species and 4 dolphin species). Every day that we went out and every tour we encountered at least one whale species, so this month we had a 100% success rate for whales on our tours! We also had a 100% success rate for seeing <a href=\"http:\/\/azoreswhales.blogspot.pt\/2007\/07\/fin-whale.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">fin whales<\/a> when we look at our daily statistics. This is the best time of the year for us to see whales and we feel very lucky to be in the company of the 5 largest animal species in the world!<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/529Maio2017sightingsgraph.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"522\" data-original-width=\"795\" height=\"420\" src=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/529Maio2017sightingsgraph.png\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>\n<b><span style=\"color: #0b5394;\">Daily sightings statistics:<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/azoreswhales.blogspot.pt\/2007\/07\/common-dolphin.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Common dolphin (<i>Delphinus delphis<\/i>)<\/a> &#8211; 95%<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/azoreswhales.blogspot.pt\/2007\/07\/bottlenose-dolphin.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bottlenose dolphin (<i>Tursiops truncatus<\/i>)<\/a> &#8211; 45%<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/azoreswhales.blogspot.pt\/2007\/07\/striped-dolphin.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Striped dolphin (<i>Stenella coeruleoalba<\/i>)<\/a> &#8211; 5%<\/li>\n<li><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; 9%<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/azoreswhales.blogspot.pt\/2007\/07\/sperm-whale.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sperm whale (<i>Physeter macrocephalus<\/i>)<\/a> &#8211; 23%<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/azoreswhales.blogspot.pt\/2007\/07\/humpback-whale.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Humpback whale (<i>Megaptera novaeangliae<\/i>)<\/a> &#8211; 14%&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/azoreswhales.blogspot.pt\/2007\/01\/blue-whale.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Blue whale (<i>Balaenoptera musculus<\/i>)<\/a> &#8211; 41%<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/azoreswhales.blogspot.pt\/2007\/07\/sei-whale.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sei whale (<i>Balaenoptera borealis<\/i>)<\/a> &#8211; 5%<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/azoreswhales.blogspot.pt\/2007\/07\/fin-whale.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fin whale (<i>Balaenoptera physalis<\/i>)<\/a> &#8211; 100%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"May has been another fantastic month for whale and dolphin watching off S\u00e3o Miguel Island in the Azores.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18404,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[143,27,4,30,35,244,6,32,242,76],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v16.2 - 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