Whale & dolphin watching around Madeira island, October 2021

October still belongs to the migration season and sometimes the warmer ocean water around Madeira archipelago attracts some rare species as Blue whale or Killer whale...

Week 43: From 25th to 31st October 2021
Striped dolphin Stenella coeruleoalba
Atlantic Spotted dolphin Stenella frontalis
Common Bottlenose dolphin Tursiops truncatus
Short-finned pilot whale Globicephala macrorhynchus
Blainville's beaked whale Mesoplodon densirostris
Sperm whale Physeter macrocephalus

Week 42: From 18th to 24th October 2021
Sperm whale Physeter macrocephalus
Blainville's beaked whale Mesoplodon densirostris
Cuvier's beaked whale Ziphius cavirostris
Short-finned pilot whale Globicephala macrorhynchus
Common Bottlenose dolphin Tursiops truncatus
Atlantic Spotted dolphin Stenella frontalis
Striped dolphin Stenella coeruleoalba

Mediterranean Monk Seal Monachus monachus

Week 41: From 11th to 17th October 2021
Pygmy killer whale Feresa attenuata
Short-finned pilot whale Globicephala macrorhynchus
Common Bottlenose dolphin Tursiops truncatus
Risso's dolphin Grampus griseus
Atlantic Spotted dolphin Stenella frontalis
Striped dolphin Stenella coeruleoalba
Blainville's beaked whale Mesoplodon densirostris
Sperm whale Physeter macrocephalus

Week 40: From 4th to 10th October 2021
Fin whale Balaenoptera physalus
Sperm whale Physeter macrocephalus
Bryde's whale Balaenoptera edeni
Sei whale Balaenoptera borealis
Blainville's beaked whale Mesoplodon densirostris
Short-finned pilot whale Globicephala macrorhynchus
Common Bottlenose dolphin Tursiops truncatus
Atlantic Spotted dolphin Stenella frontalis
Striped dolphin Stenella coeruleoalba