Marine mammals visiting Madeira coast, June 2023
June is supposed to be a summer month but this year Madeira was hit by a tropical storm 'Oscar' which brought the records of rain ever recorded for the island in just 24 hours... Fortunately there was no greater damage but the ocean was full of debris and rubbish on the 23rd week of 2023...
Week 26: From the 26th of June to the 2nd of July 2023
Sperm whale Physeter macrocephalus
Blainville's beaked whale Mesoplodon densirostris
Short-finned pilot whale Globicephala macrorhynchus
Common Bottlenose dolphin Tursiops truncatus
Risso's dolphin Grampus griseus
Rough-toothed dolphin Steno bredanensis
Short-beaked common dolphin Delphinus delphis
Atlantic spotted dolphin Stenella frontalis
Striped dolphin Stenella coeruleoalba
Sei whale Balaenoptera borealis
Bryde's whale Balaenoptera edeni
Week 25: From the 19th to the 25th of June 2023
Atlantic spotted dolphin Stenella frontalis
Short-beaked common dolphin Delphinus delphis
Common Bottlenose dolphin Tursiops truncatus
Short-finned pilot whale Globicephala macrorhynchus
Blainville's beaked whale Mesoplodon densirostris
Killer whale Orcinus orca
Sei whale Balaenoptera borealis
Bryde's whale Balaenoptera edeni
Sperm whale Physeter macrocephalus
Week 24: From the 12th to the 18th of June 2023
Fin whale Balaenoptera physalus
Sei whale Balaenoptera borealis
Bryde's whale Balaenoptera edeni
Blainville's beaked whale Mesoplodon densirostris
Cuvier's beaked whale Ziphius cavirostris
Short-finned pilot whale Globicephala macrorhynchus
Common Bottlenose dolphin Tursiops truncatus
Short-beaked common dolphin Delphinus delphis
Atlantic spotted dolphin Stenella frontalis
Week 23: From the 5th to the 11th of June 2023
Sperm whale Physeter macrocephalus
Sei whale Balaenoptera borealis
Common Bottlenose dolphin Tursiops truncatus
Short-beaked common dolphin Delphinus delphis
Atlantic spotted dolphin Stenella frontalis
Striped dolphin Stenella coeruleoalba
Week 22: From the 29th of May to the 4th of June 2023
Common Minke whale Balaenoptera acutorostrata
Striped dolphin Stenella coeruleoalba
Atlantic spotted dolphin Stenella frontalis
Short-beaked common dolphin Delphinus delphis
Rough-toothed dolphin Steno bredanensis
Common Bottlenose dolphin Tursiops truncatus
Blainville's beaked whale Mesoplodon densirostris
Cuvier's beaked whale Ziphius cavirostris
Pygmy sperm whale Kogia breviceps
Sperm whale Physeter macrocephalus
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