A blast of water coming from the surface of the water is always good news for whale watchers. Sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus) have a front-left oriented blow due to their front left located and S-shaped blowhole. The afternoon of the 23th of June we had a more challenging sea but we managed to see 5 different Sperm whales. Not all the animals dived, as each animal can show different behavior despite being part of the same group. But we took pictures of the tails of thos

Amazing trip watching sperm whales south of Faial and Pico Islands in the Azores. We will add text content on this nature expedition briefly. For now enjoy the images and give your memory an extra delight! #naturalistpt #atlanticnaturalist #azoresnaturalist #azores #whalewatchingazores #birdwatching #dolphingwatching #dolphinazores #faialtour #faialwhalewatching #Pico #Picowhalewatching #azoren #acores #portugal #bluewhale #spermwhale #finwhale #baleenwhale #pilotwhale #beake

It was a unexpected sunny afternoon. The sighting started with a pod of females Sperm whales (Physeter mactocephalus) in the South of the island of Faial. The 5 females observed were part of the to the same pod we have been observe in the last weeks. The animals kept the diving behaviour, that is mainly made to prey deep cephalopods species (octopus and squids). Each animal can be identified trough it's fluke (tail) morphology, the pictures and then analysed by our researcher

The morning was full of activity. 11 Sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus) were found in the South of Faial island. We could see many sperm whales diving close to the houses south of Faial. There was a lot of Cory's Shearwaters (Calonectris borealis). These birds run on the surface of the water before taking off. There was a huge pod of over 150 Striped dolphins (Stenella coeruleoalba). The pod was swimming fast. And it had calfs and juveniles. The Sperm whales came to the su

The afternoon was full of Sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus) and dolphins. The sperm whales belong to a pod that has been for the last three weeks south of Faial. Today these have were having the same diving behavior than in the morning. Cory's shearwaters (Calonectris borealis) were very active too, surveying the waters south to their colony in the Castelo Branco. In the afternoon we saw a pod of around 70 Bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus), likely the pod of the tw

|ENG| Scientific Name: Grampus griseus (G. Cuvier, 1812). Common Name (UK, FR, PT, ES, DE): Risso's dolphin. Grampus. Grampo. Calderón gris. Rundkopfdelfin. (Carwardine 1995, Jefferson et al. 2015). Short Species description: The enigmatic resident white dolphins. Belonging to the toothed cetaceans (Odontoceti) they have a robust body with large flippers. Born dark grey and turn white with the age as a result of the scars that they make to each other during interactions, and

|ENG| Scientific Name: Delphinus delphis (Linnaeus, 1758). Common Name (UK, FR, PT, ES, DE): Short-beacked Common dolphin. Dauphin commun à petit bec. Golfinho comum de bico curto. Delfín común de rostro corto. Gemeiner delfin Short Species description: Belonging to the toothed cetaceans (Odontoceti). The smallest of the resident dolphins in the Azores, the Common dolphins have a characteristic yellow coloring pattern. In this species, the population in the North-east Atlanti

|ENG| Scientific Name: Orcinus orca (Linneaus, 1758). Common Name (UK, FR, PT, ES, DE): Killer whale. Orque. Orca. Orca. Schwertwal Short Species description: Belonging to the toothed cetaceans (Odontoceti), Killer whales are the largest dolphin (as genetically they belong to the Delphinidae). Robust body and distinctive black and white color pattern. The size of adult females is up to 8.5 m long and 9.8 m in adult males with 7,500 kg and nearly 10,000 kg respectively. Newbor

|ENG| Scientific Name: Physeter macrocephalus (Linneaus, 1758) Common Name (UK, FR, PT, ES, DE): Sperm whale. Cachalot. Cachalote. Cachalot. Pottwal Short Species description: In the family of toothed whales, the Odontoceti, Sperm whales are the largest toothed animal on Earth. Robust body and distinctive big melon head due to the Spermaceti organ used for echolocation. Characteristic front-left oriented blow-hole. Adult females can reach 12.5 m and big males 19.2 and weigh u

Natural Calendar of the Azores - Month of June Calendário Natural dos Açores - Mês de Junho