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12
-14 June 2020
The
prognosis for a 12.65 metre long juvenile male Fin Whale,
Balaenoptera
physalus, stranded for the second time on
the Dee Estuary
seemed poor. The whale later died.
29
May 2020
A
16.45 metre juvenile female Fin Whale,
Balaenoptera
physalus, was found dead stranded in a decomposed
state at Holland-on-Sea
in Essex. The second largest whale in the
oceans is out of its normal range in the southern North Sea.
15
May 2020
"John
Coe" in Strangford Lough harbour
Photograph
by Adam Osborne
Two
celebrity Killer Whales, Orcinus
orca, "John Coe" and "Aquarius"
were spotted clearly in the enclosed waters of Strangford
Lough, Northern Ireland. They are long
time remaining
members of the West
Coast Community,
the only pod of Killer Whales permanently located in the seas around the
British Isles where they can be seen all around Ireland and off the Hebrides,
Scotland. Observers remarked how incongruous
and unusual it was to see KiIler Whales
in the narrow inlet, but it was not unprecedented and it had been seen
before, but not often. John Coe has been recorded
for forty years.
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Report 2019
BMLSS
Cetacea
2 May
2020
A
Short-nosed
Seahorse,
Hippocampus
hippocampus,
was a surprising discovery in a shallow neap tide rockpool
in the River Adur
estuary by the Scout Hut, Adur Recreation Ground.
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Two
species of Seahorse
are found in the seas around the British Isles: the Spiny
Seahorse,
Hippocampus
guttulatus, is rare in the English Channel, recorded off
Dorset and the western approaches mostly. The Short-nosed
Seahorse, Hippocampus
hippocampus, is occasionally found in deep water around
the Channel Islands, unusual but widespread elsewhere. It was also recorded
off the coast of Holland in 1998. This species is found in deep water off
the Sussex coast, notably off Southwick, near Shoreham-by-Sea.
BMLSS
Seahorses (for the younger reader)
BMLSS
Seahorses & Pipefishes
16
April 2020
A
Sowerby's
Beaked Whale, Mesoplodon bidens,
was reported dead stranded on the west facing beach at Fairbourne
in Gwynedd, Wales.
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