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Reports
of marine wildlife from all around the British Isles, with pollution incidents
and conservation initiatives as they affect the flora and fauna of the
NE Atlantic Ocean
27
July 2016
A
pod of Killer Whales, Orcinus
orca, were spotted attacking a Porpoise
100 metres off Rerwick, South Shetland.
26
July 2016
A
pod of Killer Whales, Orcinus
orca, including two mothers with their
calves, were seen very close inshore off
Levenwick,
on the east side of South
Mainland,
Shetland.
24
July 2016
A
group of over 20 Killer Whales, Orcinus
orca, were spotted swimming NSE
of North Roe
in the Shetlands (North
Mainland) by Hans
Verdaat during the Small
Cetacean Abundance in European Atlantic and North Sea - Aerial Survey
(July 2016: SCANS-III
team IV).
There
appears
to be at least three pods, possibly four, seen this year around the Shetland
Isles. These seem to all be part of the Northern
Isles Community. Some watchers were lucky that the Orcas came close
in to the rocky shores actively hunting for seals.
Scottish
Orca ID List
Sea
Watch Shetland Sightings News
A
pod of five White-beaked Dolphins,
Lagenorhyncus
albirostris, were seen bow-riding with
a yacht four miles off Downderry
in south Cornwall. This species is the more
unusual off the smaller cetaceans
only occasionally reported during the summer in the English Channel off
Cornwall.
Sea
Watch Sightings (SW)
21
July 2016
Killer
Whale
Photographs
by Craig Nisbet
A
pod of Killer Whales, Orcinus orca,
swam
close inshore at Gulberwick
in the Shetlands (map)
(east of the Mainland)
and killed two Common Seals, Phoca
vitulina,
with visible blood on the surface. There were three more seals
that managed to avoid predation by hiding behind rocks while the female
Orcas
swam by repeatedly trying to figure out how to get at them. A truly epic
experience!
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on the picture
for the video.
10
July 2016
Young
Stranded Sperm
Whale
Photograph
by Nicholas Pugliese
A young
Sperm
Whale,
Physeter
macrocephalus, washed ashore alive
at the Penhale
end of Perranporth
beach, north Cornwall. At 13 metres long, this female youngster was
lying on its side when discovered on the falling afternoon spring tide
and because she was out of the water for so long she will have internal
injuries and, even if the rescuers could refloat the stricken whale, it
would be unlikely she would survive. The whale stopped breathing and died
on the sandy beach in the afternoon.
BMLSS
Cetacea
Killer Whales
Photograph
by Jodie Sutherland
A pod
of seven or eight Killer Whales, Orcinus
orca, was spotted swimming through Mousa
Sound, (east coast South
Mainland)
of the Shetland Isles. The pod appeared to have included a young Orca.
But the one with a floppy fin was not seen.
More
Images (by Mary Stevenson)
9
July 2016
Two Killer Whales, north
Minch, Shetland Isles
heading south past the
Bard towards Mousa
Photographs
by Ryan Leith
Northern
Isles Community that moves between Iceland and Scotland to hunt
and raise young.
One
of the Killer Whales, Orcinus orca,
has a floppy dorsal fin (flopped towards the right). An Orca
with
a same sided floppy fin was seen last
year.
However,
this may not be the same whale as at least two with floppy fins have been
reported in the same community. The Iceland whale watchers have discovered
four with floppy fins.
Floppy
Fin Report by Vivian
Clark
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Killer Whales
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Hugh Harrop)
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All
reports by Andy Horton unless the credits are given
to
other observers or reporters.
Cornish
Marine Wildlife (Ray Dennis Records) 2009
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PICTURE
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Each
month, at least one special marine image will be published from images
sent to the BMLSS. This
can be of the seashore, undersea world or any
aspect of the marine natural world, especially the underwater life, but
not restricted to life beneath the waves. Topical inclusions may be included
instead of the most meritorious, and images will be limited to the NE Atlantic
Ocean and adjoining seas, marine and seashore species and land and seascapes.
Piran's
Hermit Crab
Clibanarius
erythropus
Photograph
by Thomas
Daguerre (Hydro
Motion Media C.I.C.)
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on the image for the video
In
the aftermath of 29 massive Sperm Whales,
Physeter
macrocephalus,
washed on to North Sea coasts in the first two months of 2016,
weighing
a collective total of something like 1450 tonnes, the rediscovery of a
tiny hermit crab, weighing a gramme or so, on a Cornish shore may have
been overlooked. It had been recorded before in Cornwall but not in any
number since the 1960's
or before, and is found on the northern coast of the English Channel (la
Manche).
The
discovery was made by Adrian Rowlands,
a keen amateur photographer from Truro who was taking part in a Shoresearch
survey. Adrian’s eye was caught by the tiny crab in a white shell with
bright red legs. He could tell it was something unusual and showed it to
marine experts running the rockpooling survey. It is a beautiful creature
and is unusual in that both claws are the same size and it has long red
eye stalks and black eyes with white spots!
I know
a find would of this miniature animal would have baffled me as it is not
in any of the older popular books, although it
is in Hayward &
Ryland (p. 436) I seemed to have missed
its presence on the national list.
In
2016
the BBC Springwatch programme highlighted Clibanararius
erythropus and ran a competition to
provide a vernacular name. The winning name was St
Piran's Crab.
BMLSS
Hermit Crabs in Devon
First
Report (Rediscovery)
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Killer Whales near Sandwick,
Shetland
Photograph
by Bev Redfern
The
Shetland archipelago has 1700 miles of highly variable coast and over a
hundred islands.
Deep water allows access for even the larger whales and the shores provides
sheltered rookeries for both British species of seals.
Other
residents are Harbour Porpoises
and visiting dolphins
that feed on the rich fish resources. All this marine life attracts the
attention of the the Northern
Isles Community of Killer Whales, Orcinus
orca, that moves between Iceland and
Scotland to hunt and raise young. Pods of Killer Whales have been
seen this year from the shore, mostly from the eastern coast of Mainland.
Seals
in Shetland
Killer
Whales (Wild Scotland)
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five and 50 whales, dolphins and porpoises are washed up on Britain's beaches.
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