2024 April's whale & dolphin watching sightings around Madeira
One may say that April is the opening of the whale watching season around Madeira as it is when not so common cetacean species start to pass through Madeira waters.
Week 16: From 22nd to the 28th of April 2024
Blue whale Balaenoptera musculus
Fin whale Balaenoptera physalus
Humpback whale Megaptera novaeangliae
Striped dolphin Stenella coeruleoalba
Atlantic spotted dolphin Stenella frontalis
Short-beaked common dolphin Delphinus delphis
Risso's dolphin Grampus griseus
Common Bottlenose dolphin Tursiops truncatus
Short-finned pilot whale Globicephala macrorhynchus
Blainville's beaked whale Mesoplodon densirostris
Sperm whale Physeter macrocephalus
Week 15: From 15th to the 21st of April 2024
Blue whale Balaenoptera musculus
Sperm whale Physeter macrocephalus
False killer whale Pseudorca crassidens
Short-finned pilot whale Globicephala macrorhynchus
Common Bottlenose dolphin Tursiops truncatus
Short-beaked common dolphin Delphinus delphis
Atlantic spotted dolphin Stenella frontalis
Striped dolphin Stenella coeruleoalba
Week 14: From 8th to the 14th of April 2024
Humpback whale Megaptera novaeangliae
Atlantic spotted dolphin Stenella frontalis
Short-beaked common dolphin Delphinus delphis
Risso's dolphin Grampus griseus
Common Bottlenose dolphin Tursiops truncatus
Short-finned pilot whale Globicephala macrorhynchus
Blainville's beaked whale Mesoplodon densirostris
Sperm whale Physeter macrocephalus
Week 14: From 1st to the 7th of April 2024
Sperm whale Physeter macrocephalus
Blainville's beaked whale Mesoplodon densirostris
Short-finned pilot whale Globicephala macrorhynchus
Common Bottlenose dolphin Tursiops truncatus
Short-beaked common dolphin Delphinus delphis
Atlantic spotted dolphin Stenella frontalis
Striped dolphin Stenella coeruleoalba
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