National Whale and Dolphin Watch Week 2005

577 sightings were reported during the week. Please click here for a list of all the Whales, dolphins and porpoises that have been seen in UK waters during the National Whale and Dolphin Watch 2005.

Notable sightings during National Whale and Dolphin Watch week 2005 included:

  • a group of six fin whales observed off the coast of Pembrokeshire in South-west Wales. The group was the largest ever recorded in UK coastal waters.
  • A group of 20 white-beaked dolphins seen from Stonehaven golf course, near Aberdeen, and other smaller groups off Girdleness
  • Several large groups of up to 300 common dolphins seen from Wales, south Devon and the Channel Islands
  • A group of 40 bottlenose dolphins, including calves, spotted in and around Cullen Bay, north-east Scotland, and a similar number in the Tay Estuary further south in eastern Scotland
  • Risso's dolphins, a species until recently very rare in the North Sea, seen off the north-east coast of Scotland
  • Harbour porpoises and bottlenose dolphins widely distributed around the British Isles, including sightings of one or both species off the Northumberland, Suffolk, Essex, Kent and Sussex coasts

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