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1
March 2019
A
young Humpback Whale, Megaptera
novaengliae, found stranded off the
shore in Dunstaffnage
Bay, Argyll
& Bute, west Scotland, made it back out into the Firth
of Lorne under its own efforts.
23
February 2019
Portuguese
Man o' War at Maenporth
Photograph
by Austen Osborne
Colonies
of juvenile Portuguese Man o' War, Physalia
physalis, have been discovered at several locations between the
tides
on Cornish shores. The juveniles are attached
like sea anemones and lack the long venomous tentacles of the adults. I
bet they can still give off a painful sting though.
BMLSS
Portuguese Man o'War
A breaching
Humpback
Whale, Megaptera
novaengliae, was seen from the ferry
from Dover to Dunkirk.
8
February 2019
A
vagrant adult Black-browed Albatross,
Thalassarche
melanophris, showed for six minutes
flying above the rough sea off Lizard
Point, Cornwall.
7
January 2019
Celebrity
Killer Whale, Orcinus
orca, "John Coe" was
spotted clearly off Chanonry
Point on the Moray
Firth, and off the beaten track for this West
Coast Community
Killer Whale.
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Marine Life News 2018
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