At least
19 species of cetaceans are regularly found in the seas surrounding the
British Isles.
Dolphins
by Steve
Savage
New
born
Bottle-nosed Dolphin
with adult, 19 May 2001,
swimming against flood tide, and shallow water
Photograph
by Nicolas Jouault, Jersey
There
are five species of true dolphin sighted in British
waters. These are the
Bottle-nosed Dolphin
Tursiops
truncatus,
Common Dolphin Delphinus
delphis, Striped Dolphin Stenella
coeruleoalba,
Atlantic White-sided
Dolphin Lagenorhynchus acutus,
and
White-beaked Dolphin Lagenorhynchus
albirostris. The Bottle-nosed Dolphin is the species most frequently
seen, often in groups as it is a very sociable species. Bottle-nosed Dolphins
grow to an average length of 3.1 to 3.7 metres (10-12 ft). The only known
breeding areas around the British Isles for this species are the Moray
Firth and Cardigan Bay. The Common Dolphin is widely distributed along
the west coast and in the North Sea, and the much rarer Striped Dolphin,
Stenella
coeruleoalba, is found to the south and west of Britain and Ireland.
A sixth
species Risso's Dolphin,
Grampus
griseus, generally ignores boats, neither avoiding them or approaching
them or bow-riding. AH.
21 August 2003
'Atlas of cetacean
distribution in north-west European waters'
The
publication by the Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC) of an atlas
of their distribution in waters off north-western Europe. It is based
on the sightings made by hundreds of observers over the past 25 years.
The atlas is a first for these waters, and becomes the first globally to
take full account of the variation between areas in the amount of searching
that observers have carried out to gather the information.
Click
on this text for the full information including ordering
Price
£17.00 from the Natural History Book Service (www.nhbs.com),
or phone +44 (0)1803 865913.
28
June 2005
A
group of a dozen Sperm Whales, Physeter
catodon, including a calf, were spotted
between Bressay
and Noss in the Shetland Isles (island off the east mainland). From a vantage
point overlooking Noss Sound, we were rewarded by the sight of a group
of Sperm Whales gently drifting eastwards at a distance of about two miles.
Visibility was fairly good and we could determine the distinctive outline
and classic blow through the scope, though they were a long way out when
viewed through binoculars. Despite the variety of whales and dolphins around
the Shetland Isles, Sperm Whales are unusual in the relatively shallow
water for these huge sea mammals. A group is very rare and the calf may
be the first record for the Shetlands.
Images
12
April 2005
At
9.00
am a stranded Blainville's
Beaked Whale, Mesoplodon densirostris,
was discovered and subsequently identified at Ameland, part of the Dutch
Wadden Islands by Chris Smeenk and colleagues.
The animal was a female 435 cm long and she turned out to be pregnant,
a 118 cm foetus was retrieved from the uterus. This record represents the
first for the North Sea and only the 8th record for Europe.
14-21
March 2004
A
full skeleton of a small 120 cm cetacean was discovered on the shore at
Low Newton, in Northumberland, north-east England.
Full
Report
3 September
2003
A
large whale skull was landed at Shoreham (Monteum's
Wharf, River Adur) from a small (under 10 metres
length) trawler fishing three miles off Brighton Marina, Sussex.
Further
Details and Photographs
30-31
August 2003
National
Whale and Dolphin Watch
Sea
Watch Foundation
The
Sea
Watch Foundation organised the UK's National Whale and Dolphin Watch
Weekend, aimed at providing a snapshot picture of the numbers and variety
of whales, dolphins and porpoises to be seen around the British Isles.
Details
BMLSS
Cetacea
27
August 2003
Two Melon-headed
Whales, Peponocephala electra,
became stranded alive near La Rochelle, western France (Charente-Maritime
département, Poitou-Charentes région) in the central coastal
area of the Bay of Biscay (latitude 46°). Both stranded whales were
helped back to sea, but one of them was discovered washed up dead on a
nearby beach on 29 August 2003.
When the live beached whales were discovered, neither was outwardly seen
to be ill or injured.
This
is the first record of this whale seen alive in European seas as this is
a tropical species that usually lives and hunts in large schools in the
open oceans.
The
dead specimen was an adult male that measured 2.43 metres long and weighed
123 kg (the other whale measured approximately the same length). This
is nearly its full size and
although they are called whales they are actually 30% smaller than Bottle-nosed
Dolphins, Tursiops truncatus.
Full
Report and Photographs
UK
CetNet eForum
 1998
Shetland Islands:
Shetland
Sea Mammal Report 1998
Bottle-nosed
Dolphins
Sperm
Whale - 1
Sperm Whale - 2
Striped
Dolphin
17 January: Two Bottle-nosed
Dolphins,
Tursiops
truncatus, were sighted in Uyea Sound, Unst, Shetland Isles.
This is a rare record for these islands. The latest sightings are to be
found on the Shetland News
Web Site.
22/23 March 1997. Sperm
Whale in Firth of Forth.
 British
Divers Marine Life Rescue
British
Whales & Dolphins
Cape
Cod Stranding Network Training Manual
Cetacean
List (NE Atlantic)
Cetaceans
Information (Shetland Isles Wildlife News)
Cetaceans
Information (Cornwall: Nick Tregenza)
Cetacean
Rehabilitation in Netherlands and Denmark
Cetacean
Research & Rescue Unit (CRRU)
Channel
Islands (Photographic Portfolio by Nicolas Jouault)
Channel
Islands (Marine Mammals of)
 Channel
Islands (Marine Mammals)
Company
of Whales
Herring
- Killer Whale Interaction Project (Norwegian Coast)
Irish
Whale & Dolphin Group web pages
Killer
Whales site
Mammal
Society: Cetaceans
Marine
Connection
 Marine
Mammals of the English Channel Smart Group
Marine
Mammals of the UK Cetacean Links Page
National
Whale Stranding Recording Scheme
Natural
History Museum, London
Natural
History Museum Department of Zoology National Whale
Stranding Recording Scheme
SeaQuest
Southwest / Cornwall Dolphin Group
Shetland
Isles Cetacean List with Notes
Shetland
Sea Mammal Group
La
Société Guernesiaise
Southern
Marine Life Rescue
Sussex
Dolphins (article)
Stranded
Cetacean Report Numbers
UK
& Celtic Marine Mammal Project
UK
CetNet eForum
Whale
& Dolphin Conservation Society
Whales
News Worldwide (External Link)
Northern
Bottle-nosed Whales, off Scotland by
Chris Hicks
WHALE
& DOLPHIN WATCHING
Husavik
The Whale Watch capital in
Iceland is based at Husavik. Sights include Blue Whales, Humpbacks,
Orca,
Minke and Sei Whales, dolphins, porpoises, plus Northern Bottle-nosed Whales.
The page for whale and
dolphin spotting around Britain has not been prepared yet. If you
are interested in marine wildlife, including marine mammals, and are planning
a holiday in the UK, especially Scotland, it is work clicking on the image
"SeaProbe" and having a look at the page:
Boat
Trips
(Underwater
Windows)
Also
New
Quay Dolphin Monitoring Group, Cardigan Bay, Wales
http://www.ceinewydd.co.uk/
Dolphins,
Porpoises and Whales of the Moray Firth
http://www.highlanderweb.co.uk/dolphins.htm
ORCA
Organisation Cetacea
http://www.orcaweb.org
Ireland
 Emer
Rogan EMail:E.Rogan@ucc.ie
Emer
Rogan
Dept.
of Zoology and Animal Ecology
University
College
Cork.
Tel: +353 21 904 197
Irish
Whale & Dolphin Group web pages
Cornwall:
Cetaceans
Information (Cornwall: Nick Tregenza)
Scotland
Sea
Life Surveys Web Pages (Isle of Mull, Scotland) with Cetacean and Marine
Life information
Dolphins
& Seals of the Moray Firth
SEAQUEST
SW REPORTS
Sea
Watch Foundation
Cetacean
Research (& Rescue) Unit (CRRU)
SMRU
Bass Bycatch Report & Research
Dear
All
Although
occasional dolphin sightings are fairly common in Cornwall during the Summer
months, August this year has produced some unusual activity.
From
3
August 2000, a pod of about 7-8
Bottle-nosed Dolphins were first seen by fishermen off St. George's
Island, Looe, from where they then moved to Talland Bay (between Looe and
Polperro). As of today, they are still in residence at high tides. They
approach to within 20 metres of the beach, in some 1 m of water, and are
extremely curious of bathers and small boats.
The
local boatmen of Looe and Polperro are running trips for tourists to visit
the dolphins, which seem unconcerned by the attention. I have waded out
myself and been poked and prodded by three or four at once - an unforgettable
experience.
Local
fishermen report larger than normal inshore catches of Mackerel
and Cuttlefish
- perhaps an explanation for the
dolphin activity.
Jon.
From:
"Jon Makeham" <jonmakeham@beeb.net>
On:
Latest News
2003
News:
Dead and stranded cetaceans, Cornwall (January 2003)
News:
Stranded Sperm Whale in the Wash
News:
Large Pods of Dolphins off Cornwall (1)
News:
Large Pods of Dolphins off Cornwall (2)
News:
Humpback Whale off Aberdeen
23
- 24 March 2002
A
pod of between 30 and 40 Pilot
Whales,
Globicephala melas, became stranded, or nearly stranded,
at near Camp in North in Tralee Bay, County Kerry, Ireland, and were prevented
from beaching and helped back out to sea. 18 of these whales (actually
dolphins with a bottle-shaped head) perished, but many were coaxed back
into the sea on the first day. On the following day, 10 to 12 whales were
spotted the shallow water of Fenit Harbour, but they did not become beached
and the Fenit lifeboatmen were able to escort them back into deeper water.
One of
the female whales gave birth as the lifeboatmen preventing it from beaching.
In the
authentic report, the calf was bodily lifted by a farmer and put back into
the sea.
Full
Reports
18
February 2002
A
massive stranding of 150 Common
Dolphins, Delphinus delphis, occurred on the beach at
Pleubian on the Côtes d'Armor, Bretagne (Britanny), on the English
Channel (le Manche) coast of northern France. This stranding occurred
at 3:00 pm just before the low spring tide.
 According
to people who witnessed the event at Pleubian beach, the first dolphin
beached itself followed by its congeners.
This prompted an attempted rescue by the Fire Brigade, the Police and the
public who were able to rescue 20 of the unfortunate dolphins and push
them back into the water. Unfortunately despite strenuous efforts about
60 dolphins perished (the original report was of 48 dead dolphins) but
90 survived.
The
reason for the stranding is not known but the topography of the bay and
the large tidal range were probably contributory.
Map
Stranded
Dolphin Identification Notes
Mass
Stranding Exercises in Scotland
5 February
2002
Cetacean
Deaths
Large
numbers of dolphins are washed up dead on the French coast with about 300
reports. The French newspapers showed the dolphin carcasses piled up high
on the beach.
The total
reports of stranded cetaceans for Cornwall reached 45 this year.
(In previous years the numbers
have been recorded at 26.)
January
2002
At
least 50 small cetaceans,
mostly dolphins, have been washed dead up on English Channel coasts during
this month. Dolphins are washed up dead every year, but there seems to
be at least double the normal numbers this year. Although, the cause of
death is not known for sure, most people seem to think that fishing activities
are to blame. The cause of the increase is less clear; it could be because
of the bad weather has washed more ashore, it could be because more are
being caught because of increased dolphin numbers, or increased fishing
effort, or it could be because more people are reporting their grisly discoveries.
More
information can be found on the following efora:
Marine
Mammals of the English Channel Smart Group
UK
Cetnet
Cornish
Wildlife Mailing List
3 January
2002
A
2.88 metres long female Pygmy Sperm Whale,
Kogia
breviceps, was washed up dead on Thurleston Beach in Devon. This is
an extremely unusual stranding of a deep sea whale. Scientists from the
Natural History Museum in London have taken DNA samples in an attempt to
discover from which population this whale came from. The cause of death
was unknown. This species is much commoner in the southern hemisphere.
The presence of a population west of the Bay of Biscay is possible. This
whale is classified as a Vagrant in the British
Cetacean List.
Pictures
Natural
History Museum Department of Zoology
National
Whale Stranding Recording Scheme (includes excellent photographs)
Further
Details
BMLSS
Cetaceans
February
2001
Every
year scores of dolphins are washed up dead on the shores of Cornwall and
Devon.
Jon
Makeham (Looe) has sent a report to the eforum from information in
the Cornish Times.
Dolphin
Report
13
November 1999
Two Pilot Whales,
Globicephala
melas, were seen close to the Wolf Rock, Cornwall, on Saturday afternoon.
(Vince
Smith)
On Sunday
the 13th and Monday 14th June 1999
I saw 3 Common Dolphins, Delphinus delphis, swimming off
Kennack Sands on the Lizard Peninsula. They were 2 metres long. The south
Cornish coast is a good dolphin watching area.
Report
by Jake Scolding (Cadgwith)
18 September
1999
A
pod of Bottle-nosed Dolphins, Tursiops truncatus, numbering
up to 20 individuals were reported by Hazel Meredith in Fistral Bay, Cornwall,
(SW7961) in an area occupied by bathers. Later in the month pods were reported
off Perranporth and Crantock.
More
information and Reports on the Seaquest SW (Cornwall Wildlife Trust web
pages).
and
on Cornish Marine Wildlife Reports 2000 (by Ray Dennis)
From: "Darrell Clegg"
<cleggd@plymouth.gov.uk>
Subject: Re Cornish Humpback sightings
The following is from the Caradon Field and
Natural History Club's annual report for 1992:
Humpback
Whale
Megaptera novaeangliae
Very
rare in British waters, there was obviously a family party in the South-West
during the summer. A young animal on the Cornish coast was a terrific tourist
attraction and made TV coverage. Two adults were seen together off Brixham
around the time of the Rame sighting. There is no previous report of this
species from Cornish waters.
Rame
Head: EJW (Ed Wilson) recorded a large whale moving South-East out of Whitsand
Bay at 08:00 hrs on 19 June 1992,
through his telescope he saw it roll and noted the impression of a lump
before the dorsal fin. No other whale shows this but because of the brevity
of the view he recorded it as only a probable, he has experience of Humpback
and several other whale species in Antarctic waters however, and was unaware
that Humpbacks were being seen off the South-West at this time. Confirmation
of a Humpback being seen off Plymouth came from the MBA (Marine Biological
Association) who were sent a photograph of an undoubted Humpback taken
from a yacht off Bolt Head on 13th June. There are also second-hand reports
of a Humpback being seen by a fishing boat way out in Looe Bay earlier
in June (per RC) and of a large whale with enormous flippers being sighted
about a mile south of the Eddystone on about 9th July ( a Cawsand fisherman)
Darrell
Clegg
City
of Plymouth Library and Information Services
http://www.plymouth.gov.uk/star/library.htm
cleggd@plymouth.gov.uk
Vince
Smith's One-List/Cornish Wildlife
Seaquest
SW (Cornwall Wildlife Trust web pages)
Tunes
of the Humpback Whale (New Scientist)
22
January 1995
A Humpback
Whale was observed for about one hour, feeding on Mackerel off the
Eddystone Lighthouse, an island off south Cornwall.
Cornish
Marine Life Records (Ray Dennis) 1995
Shetland
Isles:
19
June 1999
A pod of 7 White-sided
Dolphins, Lagenorhynchus acutus, visited Laxfirth Voe (central
Mainland) this evening and a Minke Whale,
Balaenoptera acutorostrata,
was spotted off Compass Head (Sumburgh).
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Digital Marine Atlas, published by the British Oceanographic Data Centre
at the Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory, includes colour
maps of cetacean distributions (common
species only) around the British Isles.
Book Reviews (click on the text):
21
August 2003
'Atlas of cetacean
distribution in north-west European waters'
The
publication by the Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC) of an atlas
of their distribution in waters off north-western Europe. It is based
on the sightings made by hundreds of observers over the past 25 years.
The atlas is a first for these waters, and becomes the first globally to
take full account of the variation between areas in the amount of searching
that observers have carried out to gather the information.
Click
on this text for the full information including ordering
Price
£17.00 from the Natural History Book Service (www.nhbs.com),
or phone +44 (0)1803 865913.
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Marine Wildlife News
News:
Sperm Whale (Firth of Forth 1997)
News:
River Trent Dolphin
News:
Striped Dolphin
Northern
Bottle-nosed Whales
News:
Minke Whale
News:
Bottle-nosed Dolphins
News:
Humpback Whale
News:
Sperm Whale
News:
Killer Whales
News:
Harbour Porpoises (Shetlands 1999)
News:
Harbour Porpoises (Neesicks is the Shetland name)
Porpoises
in Broadland Bay, Isle of Skye.
News
up to July 1997
Sussex
Dolphins 1998
News:
Striped Dolphin 1998
News:
Risso's
Dolphins 1999
News:
Beached Minke Whale in Dorset, 1999
News:
Rescue of a Risso's Dolphin in Ireland
News:
Sussex Porpoises 1999
Sea
Mammal Research Unit (Cetacean Abundance in the North Sea)
News:
Risso's Dolphin in Cornwall 1999
News:
Bottle-nosed Dolphin in Cornwall 1999
News:
Common Dolphin in Cornwall 1999
News:
White-beaked Dolphin in Cornwall 1999
News:
Pilot Whale in the Thames estuary 1999
News:
Northern Bottle-nosed Whale stranding (Ireland) 1999
News:
Risso's Dolphins (Cornwall)
Contamination
of Harbour Porpoises by polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) to deaths from
infectious disease (New Scientist)
News:
Fin Whale,
Balaenoptera physalus, (Cornwall)
Bay
of Biscay Cetacean One-List Discussion Group
Killer
Whales site
Publication:
Killer Whales
Shetland
Sea Mammal Report 1998
News:
Risso's Dolphins 2000 & Sei Whale (Cornwall)
News:
Killer Whales 2000 (Shetlands)
News:
Humpback Whales & White-sided & White-beaked Dolphins (Shetland
Isles)
News:
White-sided Dolphins in large pods (Shetland Isles)
News:
Sperm Whale (southern North Sea, stranded dead)
News:
Minke Whale, Cornwall, July 2000
News:
White-beaked Dolphins, NE Scotland
News:
Porpoises and larger Cetaceans, (Yorkshire) August 2000
News:
Cuvier's Beaked Whale (Co. Sligo, Ireland)
News:
Common Dolphins (Hampshire)
Bottle-nosed
Dolphins off Looe, Cornwall
News:
Blue Whales
News:
Common Dolphins off Cornwall 1999
Sussex
Dolphins 1999
CMW
Reports: Common Dolphins in the River Dart
Web
Page that includes Whales breaching in the Bay of Biscay
News:
Atlantic
White-sided Dolphins (stranded, Sutherland) (stranded, north Devon)
News:
Striped Dolphins (Scilly Isles) 2000
News: Sowerby's Whales in
Biscay (UK Cetnet Digest
292, 25/10/00)
Crustacean
EBiota of Cetaceans (notes only)
Local
News: Decomposed Cetacean off Sussex
Porpoises:
a few Yorkshire notes
Bottle-nosed
Dolphins (Isle of Mull 2000)
News:
Fin
Whale washed up at Heysham, Lancashire
News:
Bottlenosed Dolphins (Isle of Skye)
News:
Bottlenosed Dolphins (Jersey, winter)
News:
Minke Whale (Cornwall) 2001
News:
Durlston Bay Dolphins including a calf
News:
Sperm Whale washed up Cornwall
Smart
Group: Dolphin Deaths off Cornwall
News:
Sussex Cetaceans 2001 (February 2001 Report)
Common
and Bottle-nosed Dolphins (how to tell them apart when decomposed)
News:
Humpback Whales (Orkney)
News
2001: stranded Humpback Whale (Kent)
News
2001: Killer Whales in Cork harbour, Ireland
News:
Bottle-nosed
Dolphin, London 2001
News:
Sixty Bottle-nosed Dolphins (Dorset)
 News:
Humpback Whale in the Moray Firth 2001 (External Link)
Reports:
Common Dolphins around the Channel Islands, July-August
2001
News:
Humpback Whale from Fair Isle 2001
News:
Bottle-nosed Whale (dead stranding) from the Sound of Mull 2001
News:
100+ Common Dolphins (Guernsey)
News:
Risso's
Dolphins in the Moray Firth 2001
News:
Sei Whale washed up in Cumbria
News:
Beached Sperm Whale in the Shetlands, at Trondra
News:
Large pod of Pilot Wales in the English Channel
Sussex
Cetaceans 2001
Sussex
Sea Watch Foundation News 2001
News:
Bottle-nosed Whale (dead stranding) from the Orkneys
News:
Harbour Porpoises of Devon
News:
Dead Cetaceans off Cornwall
News:
White-beaked Dolphin, outer Moray 2001
News:
Pygmy Sperm Whale (Devon) 2002
News:
January strandings in the English Channel
News:
Common Dolphins, massive stranding, northern France
Stranded
Dolphin Identification Notes
News:
Probable Cuvier's beaked Whale at Islay
News:
Pilot Wales stranding rescue at Tralee Bay
News:
Killer Whales pod, Fetlar, Shetland Isles
News:
Bottle-nosed
Dolphin at Weymouth
News:
150 Common Dolphins
Report:
Pod of ten Bottle-nosed Dolphins including a calf
News:
Dolphins killing a young Porpoise
News:
Sowerby's Beaked Whale (Cornwall) 2002
News:
White-sided Dolphin (Sussex)
News:
Sperm
Whale in the Westerschelde
News:
Cuvier's Beaked Whale (Norfolk)
News:
Sperm Whale, decomposed (Firth of Forth)
News:
Killer Whales (Shetland Isles)
News:
Pod of 20 Common Dolphins (Cornwall)
News:
Cuvier's Beaked Whale, decomposed (Cornwall)
Local
News: Bottle-nosed Dolphins (Sussex)
Diary:
Whale & Dolphin Watching Weekend (Sea Watch Foundation)
News:
Humpback Whale in the Moray Firth
News:
Minke Whales off Rum
News:
Pilot Whales near Guernsey
News:
Minke Whales off Whitby
News:
Bottle-nosed Dolphins at Newquay
News:
Three Dolphin species pods together off Cork
News:
Eight Sperm Whales off the Orkneys
News:
Young Humpback Whale, Denmark
News:
Bottle-nosed Dolphins (Aberdeen)
News:
Minke Whale in Portland Harbour
Cetacean
News 2002 (CD-ROM only)
News:
Dead and stranded cetaceans, Cornwall (January 2003)
News:
Stranded Sperm Whale in the Wash
News:
Large Pods of Dolphins off Cornwall (1)
News:
Large Pods of Dolphins off Cornwall (2)
News:
Humpback Whale off Aberdeen
News:
Sperm Whale, stranded dead at Burrafirth, Shetlands
News:
Sperm Whale stranded dead near King's Lynn
News:
Sperm Whale stranded dead on the Stiffkey Marshes, Norfolk
News:
Sperm Whale stranded dead, near Dunkerque, France
News:
Minke Whale rescue, Cornwall
News:
Killer Whales in Pentland Firth
News:
Melon-headed
Whales, live stranding on the French coast
News:
Risso's Dolphins off Cornwall
News:
500 Porpoises off Land's End
News:
Whale Skull at Shoreham, Sussex Further
Details and Photographs
Political
News: UK ask Iceland to spare whales
News:
Risso's Dolphins off Guernsey
News:
Humpback Whale (dead) off the Netherlands
News:
Risso’s Dolphins off Runnelstone, Cornwall
News:
Risso’s Dolphins off Stumble Head, Pembrokeshire
News:
Bottle-nosed
Whale at Bovisand, Devon
News:
Humpback Whales (first live record from the Netherlands)
News:
Superpod of Dolphins off Cornwall
News:
Fin Whale stranded dead on the Brittany shore
News:
Hundreds of Common Dolphins in Falmouth Bay
2004
News:
Bottle-nosed Dolphins in Studland Bay, Dorset
News:
Dead Sperm Whale at Thornham, Norfolk
News:
Dolphins off the Sussex coast
News:
Fin Whale washed up dead on Coll in the Hebrides
News;
Four Fin Whales off Cornwall
News:
Dead Sperm Whale (Belgium)
News:
Porpoise skeleton (pictures) off Northumberland
News:
Sperm Whale stranded in the Wash
News:
Risso’s
Dolphins, NW Wales
News:
Bottle-nosed Dolphins killing a Porpoise off Aberdeen, Scotland
News:
Killer Whales off Cornwall
News:
juvenile
Humpback
Whale
News:
juvenile
Humpback
Whale found dead off the Netherlands
News:
Sperm Whale found dead off the Netherlands
News:
Bottle-nosed Dolphins in Cromarty Firth
News:
Humpback Whale and Minke Whales near the Isle of Skye
News:
Minke Whale in Falmouth Bay
News:
Fin Whale washed up dead on the south Wales (Bristol Channel) mud flats
News:
Sowerby's
Beaked Whale washed up dead at Fishguard, Wales
News:
Fin
Whale washed up dead on the south Devon coast (near Brixham)
News:
Fin
Whale washed up dead on the Cornish coast (near Land's End)
News:
White-beaked Dolphins off Dungeness, Kent
2005
News:
Bottle-nosed Dolphin (dead stranding) intraspecific attack? at Gwithian,
Cornwall
Images:
Bottle-nosed
Dolphin (dead stranding) intraspecific attack? at Gwithian, Cornwall
BBC
News: Dolphins attack Porpoises
News:
Humpback Whale off north Wales
News:
Baby Dolphin washed up dead (Sussex)
News:
Common Dolphin on Lancing Beach (Sussex)
News:
White-beaked Dolphin death at Scarborough, Yorks
News:
Blainville's
Beaked Whale, Mesoplodon densirostris,
was discovered stranded and dead and subsequently identified at Ameland,
part of the Dutch Wadden Islands by Chris
Smeenk and colleagues
Full
story and images on the ORCA website
News:
Fishermen suspected of Killing Porpoises in the North Sea (Times Report)
News:
Sperm Whale washed up dead on Skye
News:
Dolphin attack on Porpoises in the Moray Firth
News:
Striped Dolphin on an Isle of Wight beach
News:
Minke Whales at Dunnet Head, north Scotland
News:
A group of Sperm Whales, including a calf, off the Shetlands
News:
First Minke Whales in the Moray Firth of the year
News:
Beluga
Whale near
the Orkneys
News:
More Minke Whales in the Moray Firth
News:
Minke Whale off Prawle Point, south Devon
News:
Humpback Whales in Cardigan Bay
News:
Fin Whales off SW Wales
News:
Superpod of Common Dolphins in Cardigan Bay
News:
Humpback Whales in the Irish Sea
News:
White-beaked
Dolphins off Norfolk
News:
Northern Bottle-nosed Whales off Skye
News:
Striped Dolphin washed up dead of St. Ives
News:
Fin Whale washed up dead on the Isle of Wight
2006
News:
Bottle-nosed Dolphin in Maryport Harbour, Solway
News:
Northern Bottle-nosed Whale in the Thames at Westminster
News:
White-beaked Dolphin dead at Caithness, Scotland
News:
50 Common Dolphins & four Fin Whales off Cornwall
News:
Bottle-nosed Dolphin in Maryport Harbour, released into the open sea
News:
Sperm Whale stranded and died off Spurn Point, outer Humber
News:
Sperm Whale stranded dead off Skegness, Lincs
News:
Humpback Whale washed up dead in Kent
News:
Minke Whale washed up dead in Cumbria
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August
2006
A
Long-finned Pilot Whale, Globicephala
melas, was washed up dead on Gruinard
Bay,
off Gruinard Island.
The nearest place on the map is probably Laide.
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News:
A pair of Northern Bottle-nosed Whales stranded alive on the Lincolnshire
coast (but perished)
News:
Humpback
Whale wedged in a Humber dock and died
News:
Juvenile Northern Bottle-nosed Whale washed up dead
at Inverness
News:
Dead Minke Whale at Porthcothan, Cornwall
2007
News:
Killer Whale in Firth of Forth
News:
White-sided
Dolphin washed up on North Uist
News:
Risso's Dolphins off Aberdeenshire
News:
Large school of Porpoises off Sussex
News:
Risso's Dolphin in Fishguard Harbour
News:
300+ Common Dolphins in the Moray Firth
News:
Northern
Bottle-nosed Whale stranded in the River Orwell
News:
Young Minke Whale in Fraserburgh Harbour
News:
Fin Whales SE of the Faroes
News:
Northern
Bottle-nosed Whale dies on Lewis
News:
Large whale washed up dead in the Humber
News:
Humpback Whale off the Mumbles, south Wales
2008
News:
Stranded Striped Dolphin, Cornwall
News:
Dead baby Fin Whale, Cornwall
News:
Humpback Whales near Boulogne
Images:
Killer
Whales, Orcinus orca, around the Lofoten Islands, Norway
UK
Dolphin Watch Image Portfolio, July 2002
National
Whale Stranding Recording Scheme
Some
Rare Records
Shetland
Wildlife Records 1996
Shetland
Wildlife Records 1997
Shetland
Wildlife Records 1998
Shetland
Wildlife Records 1999
Shetland
Wildlife Records 2000
Shetland
Wildlife Records 2001
Shetland
Wildlife Records 2002
Shetland
Wildlife Records 2003/4
Shetland
Wildlife Records 2005/6
Cornish
Marine Life Records (Ray Dennis) 1993
Cornish
Marine Life Records (Ray Dennis) 1994
Cornish
Marine Life Records (Ray Dennis) 1995
Cornish
Marine Life Records (Ray Dennis) 1996
Cornish
Marine Life Records (Ray Dennis) 1997
Cornish
Marine Life Records (Ray Dennis) 1998
Cornish
Marine Wildlife Reports 1999 (by Ray Dennis)
Cornish
Marine Wildlife Reports 2000 (by Ray Dennis)
Cornish
Marine Wildlife Reports 2001 (by Ray Dennis)
Cornish
Marine Wildlife Reports 2002 (by Ray Dennis)
Cornish
Marine Wildlife Reports 2003 (by Ray Dennis)
Cornish
Marine Wildlife Reports 2004 (by Ray Dennis)
Cornish
Marine Wildlife Reports 2005 (by Ray Dennis)
Sussex
Cetaceans
Minimising
disturbance to cetaceans from recreation at sea
http://www.defra.gov.uk/wildlife-countryside/whales/cetacean.pdf
Minimising disturbance
to Cetaceans from Whale watching operations
http://www.defra.gov.uk/wildlife-countryside/whales/
Acoustic monitoring of
large whales to the west of Britain and Ireland using bottom mounted hydrophone
arrays
October 1996 - September
1998
http://www.oilandgas.org.uk/issues/afen/v0000632.htm
International Whaling
Commission
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/Homepages/iwcoffice/
MARMAM
Moray
Firth Dolphins: Disease Notes
Zoonosis
(Marine Mammals)
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What to do if you find a stranded whale or dolphin ?
If
you find a LIVE stranded or injured whale or dolphin on the beach you must
send for help QUICKLY. A whale or dolphin stranding is an emergency and
the speed of response by a professional rescue team is perhaps the most
crucial factor in determining whether or not an animal can be returned
to the sea alive.
EMERGENCY
NUMBERS FOR LIVE CETACEAN STRANDINGS
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ENGLAND
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WALES
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SCOTLAND
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IRELAND
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0870 5555
999
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0870 5555
999
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0131 339
0111
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See
Below
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CORNWALL
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JERSEY
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GUERNSEY
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SHETLANDS
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0845 201
2626
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01534 724331
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00 44 1481
727967
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British
Divers Marine Life Rescue
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01825
765546
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LINK
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