Cetaceans visiting Madeira in January 2020

Happy New Year! And hopefully it will be happy in terms of marine wildlife visiting Madeira, although climate change may play a big role on it... It has been a weird winter with dramatic changes in temperature from one week to another but fortunately sea water temperature does not change so quickly as that! So let's see which cetaceans species will pass by during this 1st month of the year:

Week 5: From 27th January to 2nd February 2020
Fin whale Balaenoptera physalus
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

Week 4: From 20th to 26th January 2020
Atlantic spotted dolphin Stenella frontalis
Short-beaked common dolphin Delphinus delphis
Common Bottlenose dolphin Tursiops truncatus
Short-finned pilot whale Globicephala macrorhynchus

Week 3: From 13th to 19th January 2020
Short-finned pilot whale Globicephala macrorhynchus
Atlantic spotted dolphin Stenella frontalis
Striped dolphin Stenella coeruleoalba
Short-beaked common dolphin Delphinus delphis
Common Bottlenose dolphin Tursiops truncatus

Week 2: From 6th to 12th January 2020
Atlantic spotted dolphin Stenella frontalis
Striped dolphin Stenella coeruleoalba
Short-beaked common dolphin Delphinus delphis
Common Bottlenose dolphin Tursiops truncatus
Short-finned pilot whale Globicephala macrorhynchus
Blainville's beaked whale Mesoplodon densirostris

Week 1: From 30th December 2019 to 5th January 2020
Common Bottlenose dolphin Tursiops truncatus
Short-beaked common dolphin Delphinus delphis