At least
19 species of cetaceans are regularly found in the seas surrounding the
British Isles.
Would you know what to
do if you found a whale stranded on a beach?
Each year anywhere between
five and 50 whales, dolphins and porpoises are washed up on Britain's beaches.
British
Divers Marine Life Rescue, a volunteer charity, was set up in 1998
to rescue them.
BBC
News Report
Dolphins
by Steve
Savage
New
born
Bottle-nosed Dolphin
with adult, 19 May 2001,
swimming against flood tide, and shallow water
Photograph
by Nicolas Jouault,
Jersey
There
are five species of true dolphin sighted in British
waters. These are the
Bottle-nosed Dolphin
Tursiops
truncatus,
Common Dolphin Delphinus
delphis,
Striped Dolphin Stenella
coeruleoalba,
Atlantic White-sided
Dolphin Lagenorhynchus acutus,
and
White-beaked Dolphin Lagenorhynchus
albirostris. The Bottle-nosed Dolphin is the species most frequently
seen, often in groups as it is a very sociable species. Bottle-nosed
Dolphins grow to an average length of 3.1
to 3.7 metres (10-12 ft). The only known breeding areas around the British
Isles for this species are the Moray Firth and Cardigan Bay. The Common
Dolphin is widely distributed along the west coast and in the North Sea,
and the much rarer Striped Dolphin,
Stenella coeruleoalba, is found
to the south and west of Britain and Ireland.
A sixth
species Risso's Dolphin,
Grampus
griseus, generally ignores boats, neither avoiding them or approaching
them or bow-riding. AH.
Difference
between a Dolphin and a Porpoise (Link)
21 August 2003
'Atlas of cetacean
distribution in north-west European waters'
The
publication by the Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC) of an atlas
of their distribution in waters off north-western Europe. It is based
on the sightings made by hundreds of observers over the past 25 years.
The atlas is a first for these waters, and becomes the first globally to
take full account of the variation between areas in the amount of searching
that observers have carried out to gather the information.
Click
on this text for the full information including ordering
Price
£17.00 from the Natural History Book Service (www.nhbs.com),
or phone +44 (0)1803 865913.
Index
to Reports
28
June 2005
A
group of a dozen Sperm Whales, Physeter
macrocephalus, including a calf, were
spotted between Bressay
and Noss in the Shetland Isles (island off the east mainland). From a vantage
point overlooking Noss Sound, we were rewarded by the sight of a group
of Sperm Whales gently drifting eastwards at a distance of about two miles.
Visibility was fairly good and we could determine the distinctive outline
and classic blow through the scope, though they were a long way out when
viewed through binoculars. Despite the variety of whales and dolphins around
the Shetland Isles, Sperm Whales are unusual in the relatively shallow
water for these huge sea mammals. A group is very rare and the calf may
be the first record for the Shetlands.
Images
12
April 2005
At
9.00
am a stranded Blainville's
Beaked Whale, Mesoplodon densirostris,
was discovered and subsequently identified at Ameland, part of the Dutch
Wadden Islands by Chris Smeenk and colleagues.
The animal was a female 435 cm long and she turned out to be pregnant,
a 118 cm foetus was retrieved from the uterus. This record represents the
first for the North Sea and only the 8th record for Europe.
14-21
March 2004
A
full skeleton of a small 120 cm cetacean was discovered on the shore at
Low Newton, in Northumberland, north-east England.
Full
Report
3 September
2003
A
large whale skull
was landed at Shoreham (Monteum's Wharf, River
Adur) from a small (under 10 metres length) trawler fishing three miles
off Brighton Marina, Sussex.
Further
Details and Photographs
30-31
August 2003
National
Whale and Dolphin Watch
Sea
Watch Foundation
The
Sea
Watch Foundation organised the UK's National Whale and Dolphin Watch
Weekend, aimed at providing a snapshot picture of the numbers and variety
of whales, dolphins and porpoises to be seen around the British Isles.
Details
BMLSS
Cetacea
27
August 2003
Two Melon-headed
Whales, Peponocephala electra,
became stranded alive near La Rochelle, western France (Charente-Maritime
département, Poitou-Charentes région) in the central coastal
area of the Bay of Biscay (latitude 46°). Both stranded whales were
helped back to sea, but one of them was discovered washed up dead on a
nearby beach on 29 August 2003.
When the live beached whales were discovered, neither was outwardly seen
to be ill or injured.
This
is the first record of this whale seen alive in European seas as this is
a tropical species that usually lives and hunts in large schools in the
open oceans.
The
dead specimen was an adult male that measured 2.43 metres long and weighed
123 kg (the other whale measured approximately the same length). This
is nearly its full size and
although they are called whales they are actually 30% smaller than Bottle-nosed
Dolphins, Tursiops truncatus.
Full
Report and Photographs
 1998
Shetland Islands:
Shetland
Sea Mammal Report 1998
Bottle-nosed
Dolphins
Sperm
Whale - 1
Sperm Whale - 2
Striped
Dolphin
17 January: Two Bottle-nosed
Dolphins,
Tursiops
truncatus, were sighted in Uyea Sound, Unst, Shetland Isles.
This is a rare record for these islands. The latest sightings are to be
found on the Shetland News
Web Site.
22/23 March 1997. Sperm
Whale in Firth of Forth.
 British
Divers Marine Life Rescue
British
Whales & Dolphins
Cape
Cod Stranding Network Training Manual
Cetacean
List (NE Atlantic)
Cetaceans
Information (Shetland Isles Wildlife News)
Cetaceans
Information (Cornwall: Nick Tregenza)
Cetacean
Rehabilitation in Netherlands and Denmark
Cetacean
Research & Rescue Unit (CRRU)
Channel
Islands (Photographic Portfolio by Nicolas Jouault)
Channel
Islands (Marine Mammals of)
 Channel
Islands (Marine Mammals)
Company
of Whales
Herring
- Killer Whale Interaction Project (Norwegian Coast)
Irish
Whale & Dolphin Group web pages
Killer
Whales site
Mammal
Society: Cetaceans
Marine
Connection
 Marine
Mammals of the English Channel Smart Group
Marine
Mammals of the UK Cetacean Links Page
National
Whale Stranding Recording Scheme
Natural
History Museum, London
Natural
History Museum Department of Zoology National Whale
Stranding Recording Scheme
SeaQuest
Southwest / Cornwall Dolphin Group
Shetland
Isles Cetacean List with Notes
Shetland
Sea Mammal Group
La
Société Guernesiaise
Southern
Marine Life Rescue
Sussex
Dolphins (article)
Stranded
Cetacean Report Numbers
UK
& Celtic Marine Mammal Project
UK
CetNet eForum
Whale
& Dolphin Conservation Society
Whales
News Worldwide (External Link)
Northern
Bottle-nosed Whales, off Scotland by
Chris Hicks
WHALE
& DOLPHIN WATCHING
Husavik
The Whale Watch capital in
Iceland is based at Husavik. Sights include Blue Whales, Humpbacks,
Orca,
Minke and Sei Whales, dolphins, porpoises, plus Northern Bottle-nosed Whales.
The page for whale and
dolphin spotting around Britain has not been prepared yet. If you
are interested in marine wildlife, including marine mammals, and are planning
a holiday in the UK, especially Scotland, it is work clicking on the image
"SeaProbe" and having a look at the page:
Boat
Trips
(Underwater
Windows)
Dolphin
and Whale Watch Pages
Isle
of Man
Wales
Also
New
Quay Dolphin Monitoring Group, Cardigan Bay, Wales
http://www.ceinewydd.co.uk/
Dolphins,
Porpoises and Whales of the Moray Firth
http://www.highlanderweb.co.uk/dolphins.htm
ORCA
Organisation Cetacea
http://www.orcaweb.org
Ireland
 Emer
Rogan EMail:E.Rogan@ucc.ie
Emer
Rogan
Dept.
of Zoology and Animal Ecology
University
College
Cork.
Tel: +353 21 904 197
Irish
Whale & Dolphin Group web pages
Cornwall:
Cetaceans
Information (Cornwall: Nick Tregenza)
Scotland
Sea
Life Surveys Web Pages (Isle of Mull, Scotland) with Cetacean and Marine
Life information
Dolphins
& Seals of the Moray Firth
SEAQUEST
SW REPORTS
Sea
Watch Foundation
Cetacean
Research (& Rescue) Unit (CRRU)
SMRU
Bass Bycatch Report & Research
Dear
All
Although
occasional dolphin sightings are fairly common in Cornwall during the Summer
months, August this year has produced some unusual activity.
From
3
August 2000, a pod of about 7-8
Bottle-nosed Dolphins were first seen by fishermen off St. George's
Island, Looe, from where they then moved to Talland Bay (between Looe and
Polperro). As of today, they are still in residence at high tides. They
approach to within 20 metres of the beach, in some 1 m of water, and are
extremely curious of bathers and small boats.
The
local boatmen of Looe and Polperro are running trips for tourists to visit
the dolphins, which seem unconcerned by the attention. I have waded out
myself and been poked and prodded by three or four at once - an unforgettable
experience.
Local
fishermen report larger than normal inshore catches of Mackerel
and Cuttlefish
- perhaps an explanation for the
dolphin activity.
Jon.
From:
"Jon Makeham" <jonmakeham@beeb.net>
On:
Latest News
2003
News:
Dead and stranded cetaceans, Cornwall (January 2003)
News:
Stranded Sperm Whale in the Wash
News:
Large Pods of Dolphins off Cornwall (1)
News:
Large Pods of Dolphins off Cornwall (2)
News:
Humpback Whale off Aberdeen
23
- 24 March 2002
A
pod of between 30 and 40 Pilot
Whales,
Globicephala melas,
became stranded, or nearly stranded, at near Camp in North in Tralee
Bay, County Kerry,
Ireland, and were prevented from beaching and helped back out to sea. 18
of these whales (actually dolphins with a bottle-shaped head) perished,
but many were coaxed back into the sea on the first day. On the following
day, 10 to 12 whales were spotted the shallow water of Fenit Harbour, but
they did not become beached and the Fenit lifeboatmen were able to escort
them back into deeper water.
One of
the female whales gave birth as the lifeboatmen preventing it from beaching.
In the
authentic report, the calf was bodily lifted by a farmer and put back into
the sea.
Full
Reports
18
February 2002
A
massive stranding of 150
Common Dolphins, Delphinus delphis,
occurred on the beach at Pleubian on the Côtes d'Armor, Bretagne
(Britanny), on the English Channel (le Manche) coast of northern France.
This stranding occurred at 3:00 pm just before the low spring tide.
 According
to people who witnessed the event at Pleubian beach, the first dolphin
beached itself followed by its congeners.
This prompted an attempted rescue by the Fire Brigade, the Police and the
public who were able to rescue 20 of the unfortunate dolphins and push
them back into the water. Unfortunately despite strenuous efforts about
60 dolphins perished (the original report was of 48 dead dolphins) but
90 survived.
The
reason for the stranding is not known but the topography of the bay and
the large tidal range were probably contributory.
Map
Stranded
Dolphin Identification Notes
Mass
Stranding Exercises in Scotland
5 February
2002
Cetacean
Deaths
Large
numbers of dolphins are washed up dead on the French coast with about 300
reports. The French newspapers showed the dolphin carcasses piled up high
on the beach.
The total
reports of stranded cetaceans for Cornwall reached 45 this year.
(In previous years the numbers
have been recorded at 26.)
January
2002
At
least 50
small cetaceans, mostly dolphins, have
been washed dead up on English Channel coasts during this month. Dolphins
are washed up dead every year, but there seems to be at least double the
normal numbers this year. Although, the cause of death is not known for
sure, most people seem to think that fishing activities are to blame. The
cause of the increase is less clear; it could be because of the bad weather
has washed more ashore, it could be because more are being caught because
of increased dolphin numbers, or increased fishing effort, or it could
be because more people are reporting their grisly discoveries.
More
information can be found on the following efora:
Marine
Mammals of the English Channel Smart Group
UK
Cetnet
Cornish
Wildlife Mailing List
3 January
2002
A
2.88 metres long female Pygmy
Sperm Whale,
Kogia breviceps, was
washed up dead on Thurlestone
Beach in Devon. This is an extremely unusual stranding of a deep sea
whale. Scientists from the Natural History Museum in London have taken
DNA samples in an attempt to discover from which population this whale
came from. The cause of death was unknown. This species is much commoner
in the southern hemisphere. The presence of a population west of the Bay
of Biscay is possible. This whale is classified as a Vagrant in
the British Cetacean List.
Pictures
Natural
History Museum Department of Zoology
National
Whale Stranding Recording Scheme (includes excellent photographs)
Further
Details
BMLSS
Cetaceans
February
2001
Every
year scores of dolphins are washed up dead on the shores of Cornwall and
Devon.
Jon
Makeham (Looe) has sent a report to the eforum from information in
the Cornish Times.
Dolphin
Report
13
November 1999
Two Pilot Whales,
Globicephala
melas, were seen close to the Wolf Rock, Cornwall, on Saturday afternoon.
(Vince
Smith)
On Sunday
the 13th and Monday 14th June 1999
I saw 3 Common Dolphins, Delphinus delphis, swimming off
Kennack Sands on the Lizard Peninsula. They were 2 metres long. The south
Cornish coast is a good dolphin watching area.
Report
by Jake Scolding (Cadgwith)
18 September
1999
A
pod of Bottle-nosed Dolphins, Tursiops truncatus, numbering
up to 20 individuals were reported by Hazel Meredith in Fistral Bay, Cornwall,
(SW7961) in an area occupied by bathers. Later in the month pods were reported
off Perranporth and Crantock.
More
information and Reports on the Seaquest SW (Cornwall Wildlife Trust web
pages).
and
on Cornish Marine Wildlife Reports 2000 (by Ray Dennis)
From: "Darrell Clegg"
<cleggd@plymouth.gov.uk>
Subject: Re Cornish Humpback sightings
The following is from the Caradon Field and
Natural History Club's annual report for 1992:
Humpback
Whale
Megaptera novaeangliae
Rare
in British waters, there was obviously a family party in the south-west
during the summer. A young animal on the Cornish coast was a terrific tourist
attraction and made TV coverage. Two adults were seen together off Brixham
around the time of the Rame sighting. There is no previous report of this
species from Cornish waters.
Rame
Head: EJW (Ed Wilson) recorded a large whale moving South-East out of Whitsand
Bay at 08:00 hrs on 19 June 1992,
through his telescope he saw it roll and noted the impression of a lump
before the dorsal fin. No other whale shows this but because of the brevity
of the view he recorded it as only a probable, he has experience of Humpback
and several other whale species in Antarctic waters however, and was unaware
that Humpbacks were being seen off the South-West at this time. Confirmation
of a Humpback being seen off Plymouth came from the MBA (Marine Biological
Association) who were sent a photograph of an undoubted Humpback taken
from a yacht off Bolt Head on 13th June. There are also second-hand reports
of a Humpback being seen by a fishing boat way out in Looe Bay earlier
in June (per RC) and of a large whale with enormous flippers being sighted
about a mile south of the Eddystone on about 9th July ( a Cawsand fisherman)
Darrell
Clegg
City
of Plymouth Library and Information Services
http://www.plymouth.gov.uk/star/library.htm
cleggd@plymouth.gov.uk
Vince
Smith's One-List/Cornish Wildlife
Seaquest
SW (Cornwall Wildlife Trust web pages)
Tunes
of the Humpback Whale (New Scientist)
22
January 1995
A Humpback
Whale was observed for about one hour, feeding on Mackerel off the
Eddystone Lighthouse, an island off south Cornwall.
Cornish
Marine Life Records (Ray Dennis) 1995
Shetland
Isles:
19
June 1999
A pod of 7 White-sided
Dolphins, Lagenorhynchus acutus, visited Laxfirth Voe (central
Mainland) this evening and a Minke Whale,
Balaenoptera acutorostrata,
was spotted off Compass Head (Sumburgh).
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species breakdowns,
latest news, threats, shopping, pictures,
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more --- all on the giants of the deep!
CETACEA
- http://www.cetacea.org
The
UK
Digital Marine Atlas, published by the British Oceanographic Data Centre
at the Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory, includes colour
maps of cetacean distributions (common
species only) around the British Isles.
Book Reviews
(click on the text):
21
August 2003
'Atlas of cetacean
distribution in north-west European waters'
The
publication by the Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC) of an atlas
of their distribution in waters off north-western Europe. It is based
on the sightings made by hundreds of observers over the past 25 years.
The atlas is a first for these waters, and becomes the first globally to
take full account of the variation between areas in the amount of searching
that observers have carried out to gather the information.
Click
on this text for the full information including ordering
Price
£17.00 from the Natural History Book Service (www.nhbs.com),
or phone +44 (0)1803 865913.
British
Marine Wildlife News Index
Earliest
reports first
News:
Sperm Whale (Firth of Forth 1997)
News:
River Trent Dolphin
News:
Striped Dolphin
Northern
Bottle-nosed Whales
News:
Minke Whale
News:
Bottle-nosed Dolphins
News:
Humpback Whale
News:
Sperm Whale
News:
Killer Whales
News:
Harbour Porpoises (Shetlands 1999)
News:
Harbour Porpoises (Neesicks is the Shetland name)
Porpoises
in Broadland Bay, Isle of Skye.
News
up to July 1997
Sussex
Dolphins 1998
News:
Striped Dolphin 1998
News:
Risso's
Dolphins 1999
News:
Beached Minke Whale in Dorset, 1999
News:
Rescue of a Risso's Dolphin in Ireland
News:
Sussex Porpoises 1999
Sea
Mammal Research Unit (Cetacean Abundance in the North Sea)
News:
Risso's Dolphin in Cornwall 1999
News:
Bottle-nosed Dolphin in Cornwall 1999
News:
Common Dolphin in Cornwall 1999
News:
White-beaked Dolphin in Cornwall 1999
News:
Pilot Whale in the Thames estuary 1999
News:
Northern Bottle-nosed Whale stranding (Ireland) 1999
News:
Risso's Dolphins (Cornwall)
Contamination
of Harbour Porpoises by polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) to deaths from
infectious disease (New Scientist)
News:
Fin Whale,
Balaenoptera physalus, (Cornwall)
Bay
of Biscay Cetacean One-List Discussion Group
Killer
Whales site
Publication:
Killer Whales
Shetland
Sea Mammal Report 1998
News:
Risso's Dolphins 2000 & Sei Whale (Cornwall)
News:
Killer Whales 2000 (Shetlands)
News:
Humpback Whales & White-sided & White-beaked Dolphins (Shetland
Isles)
News:
White-sided Dolphins in large pods (Shetland Isles)
News:
Sperm Whale (southern North Sea, stranded dead)
News:
Minke Whale, Cornwall, July 2000
News:
White-beaked Dolphins, NE Scotland
News:
Porpoises and larger Cetaceans, (Yorkshire) August 2000
News:
Cuvier's Beaked Whale (Co. Sligo, Ireland)
News:
Common Dolphins (Hampshire)
Bottle-nosed
Dolphins off Looe, Cornwall
News:
Blue Whales
News:
Common Dolphins off Cornwall 1999
Sussex
Dolphins 1999
CMW
Reports: Common Dolphins in the River Dart
Web
Page that includes Whales breaching in the Bay of Biscay
News:
Atlantic
White-sided Dolphins (stranded, Sutherland) (stranded, north Devon)
News:
Striped Dolphins (Isles of Scilly ) 2000
News: Sowerby's Whales in
Biscay (UK Cetnet Digest
292, 25/10/00)
Crustacean
EBiota of Cetaceans (notes only)
Local
News: Decomposed Cetacean off Sussex
Porpoises:
a few Yorkshire notes
Bottle-nosed
Dolphins (Isle of Mull 2000)
News:
Fin
Whale washed up at Heysham, Lancashire
News:
Bottlenosed Dolphins (Isle of Skye)
News:
Bottlenosed Dolphins (Jersey, winter)
News:
Minke Whale (Cornwall) 2001
News:
Durlston Bay Dolphins including a calf
News:
Sperm Whale washed up Cornwall
Smart
Group: Dolphin Deaths off Cornwall
News:
Sussex Cetaceans 2001 (February 2001 Report)
Common
and Bottle-nosed Dolphins (how to tell them apart when decomposed)
News:
Humpback Whales (Orkney)
News
2001: stranded Humpback Whale (Kent)
News
2001: Killer Whales in Cork harbour, Ireland
News:
Bottle-nosed
Dolphin, London 2001
News:
Sixty Bottle-nosed Dolphins (Dorset)
 News:
Humpback Whale in the Moray Firth 2001 (External Link)
Reports:
Common Dolphins around the Channel Islands, July-August
2001
News:
Humpback Whale from Fair Isle 2001
News:
Bottle-nosed Whale (dead stranding) from the Sound of Mull 2001
News:
100+ Common Dolphins (Guernsey)
News:
Risso's
Dolphins in the Moray Firth 2001
News:
Sei Whale washed up in Cumbria
News:
Beached Sperm Whale in the Shetlands, at Trondra
News:
Large pod of Pilot Wales in the English Channel
Sussex
Cetaceans 2001
Sussex
Sea Watch Foundation News 2001
News:
Bottle-nosed Whale (dead stranding) from the Orkneys
News:
Harbour Porpoises of Devon
News:
Dead Cetaceans off Cornwall
News:
White-beaked Dolphin, outer Moray 2001
News:
Pygmy Sperm Whale (Devon) 2002
News:
January strandings in the English Channel
News:
Common Dolphins, massive stranding, northern France
Stranded
Dolphin Identification Notes
News:
Probable Cuvier's beaked Whale at Islay
News:
Pilot Wales stranding rescue at Tralee Bay
News:
Killer Whales pod, Fetlar, Shetland Isles
News:
Bottle-nosed
Dolphin at Weymouth
News:
150 Common Dolphins
Report:
Pod of ten Bottle-nosed Dolphins including a calf
News:
Dolphins killing a young Porpoise
News:
Sowerby's Beaked Whale (Cornwall) 2002
News:
White-sided Dolphin (Sussex)
News:
Sperm
Whale in the Westerschelde
News:
Cuvier's Beaked Whale (Norfolk)
News:
Sperm Whale, decomposed (Firth of Forth)
News:
Killer Whales (Shetland Isles)
News:
Pod of 20 Common Dolphins (Cornwall)
News:
Cuvier's Beaked Whale, decomposed (Cornwall)
Local
News: Bottle-nosed Dolphins (Sussex)
Diary:
Whale & Dolphin Watching Weekend (Sea Watch Foundation)
News:
Humpback Whale in the Moray Firth
News:
Minke Whales off Rum
News:
Pilot Whales near Guernsey
News:
Minke Whales off Whitby
News:
Bottle-nosed Dolphins at Newquay
News:
Three Dolphin species pods together off Cork
News:
Eight Sperm Whales off the Orkneys
News:
Young Humpback Whale, Denmark
News:
Bottle-nosed Dolphins (Aberdeen)
News:
Minke Whale in Portland Harbour
Cetacean
News 2002 (CD-ROM only)
News:
Dead and stranded cetaceans, Cornwall (January 2003)
News:
Stranded Sperm Whale in the Wash
News:
Large Pods of Dolphins off Cornwall (1)
News:
Large Pods of Dolphins off Cornwall (2)
News:
Humpback Whale off Aberdeen
News:
Sperm Whale, stranded dead at Burrafirth, Shetlands
News:
Sperm Whale stranded dead near King's Lynn
News:
Sperm Whale stranded dead on the Stiffkey Marshes, Norfolk
News:
Sperm Whale stranded dead, near Dunkerque, France
News:
Minke Whale rescue, Cornwall
News:
Killer Whales in Pentland Firth
News:
Melon-headed
Whales, live stranding on the French coast
News:
Risso's Dolphins off Cornwall
News:
500 Porpoises off Land's End
News:
Whale Skull at Shoreham, Sussex Further
Details and Photographs
Political
News: UK ask Iceland to spare whales
News:
Risso's Dolphins off Guernsey
News:
Humpback Whale (dead) off the Netherlands
News:
Risso’s Dolphins off Runnelstone, Cornwall
News:
Risso’s Dolphins off Stumble Head, Pembrokeshire
News:
Bottle-nosed
Whale at Bovisand, Devon
News:
Humpback Whales (first live record from the Netherlands)
News:
Superpod of Dolphins off Cornwall
News:
Fin Whale stranded dead on the Brittany shore
News:
Hundreds of Common Dolphins in Falmouth Bay
2004
News:
Bottle-nosed Dolphins in Studland Bay, Dorset
News:
Cuvier’s
Beaked Whale washed up dead on Mull
News:
Dead Sperm Whale at Thornham, Norfolk
News:
Dolphins off the Sussex coast
News:
Fin Whale washed up dead on Coll in the Hebrides
News;
Four Fin Whales off Cornwall
News:
Dead Sperm Whale (Belgium)
News:
Porpoise skeleton (pictures) off Northumberland
News:
Sperm Whale stranded in the Wash
News:
Risso’s
Dolphins, NW Wales
News:
Bottle-nosed Dolphins killing a Porpoise off Aberdeen, Scotland
News:
Killer Whales off Cornwall
News:
juvenile
Humpback
Whale
News:
juvenile
Humpback
Whale found dead off the Netherlands
News:
Sperm Whale found dead off the Netherlands
News:
Bottle-nosed Dolphins in Cromarty Firth
News:
Humpback Whale and Minke Whales near the Isle of Skye
News:
Minke Whale in Falmouth Bay
News: Fin
Whale washed up dead on the south Wales (Bristol Channel) mud flats
News:
Sowerby's
Beaked Whale washed up dead at Fishguard, Wales
News:
Fin
Whale washed up dead on the south Devon coast (near Brixham)
News:
Fin
Whale washed up dead on the Cornish coast (near Land's End)
News:
White-beaked Dolphins off Dungeness, Kent
2005
News:
Bottle-nosed Dolphin (dead stranding) intraspecific attack? at Gwithian,
Cornwall
Images:
Bottle-nosed
Dolphin (dead stranding) intraspecific attack? at Gwithian, Cornwall
BBC
News: Dolphins attack Porpoises
News:
Stranded Sperm Whale in County Cork
News:
Humpback Whale off north Wales
News:
Baby Dolphin washed up dead (Sussex)
News:
Common Dolphin on Lancing Beach (Sussex)
News:
White-beaked Dolphin death at Scarborough, Yorks
News:
Blainville's
Beaked Whale, Mesoplodon densirostris,was
discovered stranded and dead and subsequently identified at Ameland, part
of the Dutch Wadden Islands by Chris Smeenk
and colleagues
Full
story and images on the ORCA website
News:
Fishermen suspected of killing Porpoises in the North Sea (Times Report)
News:
Sperm Whale washed up dead on Skye
News:
Dolphin attack on Porpoises in the Moray Firth
News:
Striped Dolphin on an Isle of Wight beach
News:
Minke Whales at Dunnet Head, north Scotland
News:
A group of Sperm Whales, including a calf, off the Shetlands
News:
First Minke Whales in the Moray Firth of the year
News:
Beluga
Whale near
the Orkneys
News:
More Minke Whales in the Moray Firth
News:
Minke Whale off Prawle Point, south Devon
News:
Humpback Whales in Cardigan Bay
News:
Fin Whales off SW Wales
News:
Superpod of Common Dolphins in Cardigan Bay
News:
Humpback Whales in the Irish Sea
News:
White-beaked
Dolphins off Norfolk
News:
Northern Bottle-nosed Whales off Skye
News:
Striped Dolphin washed up dead of St. Ives
News:
Fin Whale washed up dead on the Isle of Wight
2006
News:
Bottle-nosed Dolphin in Maryport Harbour, Solway
News:
Northern Bottle-nosed Whale in the Thames at Westminster
News:
White-beaked Dolphin dead at Caithness, Scotland
News:
50 Common Dolphins & four Fin Whales off Cornwall
News:
Bottle-nosed Dolphin in Maryport Harbour, released into the open sea
News:
Sperm Whale stranded and died off Spurn Point, outer Humber
News:
Sperm Whale stranded dead off Skegness, Lincs
News:
Humpback Whale washed up dead in Kent
News:
Minke Whale washed up dead in Cumbria
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August
2006
A
Long-finned
Pilot Whale, Globicephala melas, was
washed up dead on Gruinard
Bay,
off Gruinard Island.
The nearest place on the map is probably Laide.
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News:
A pair of Northern Bottle-nosed Whales stranded alive on the Lincolnshire
coast (but perished)
News:
Humpback
Whale wedged in a Humber dock and died
News:
Juvenile Northern Bottle-nosed Whale washed up dead
at Inverness
News:
Dead Minke Whale at Porthcothan, Cornwall
2007
News:
Killer Whale in Firth of Forth
News:
White-sided
Dolphin washed up on North Uist
News:
Risso's Dolphins off Aberdeenshire
News:
Large school of Porpoises off Sussex
News:
Risso's Dolphin in Fishguard Harbour
News:
300+ Common Dolphins in the Moray Firth
News:
Northern
Bottle-nosed Whale stranded in the River Orwell
News:
Young Minke Whale in Fraserburgh Harbour
News:
Fin Whales SE of the Faroes
News:
Northern
Bottle-nosed Whale dies on Lewis
News:
Large Fin Whale washed up dead in the Humber
News:
Humpback Whale off the Mumbles, south Wales
2008
News:
Stranded Striped Dolphin, Cornwall
News:
Cuvier’s Beaked Whale
dead on Islay
News:
Dead baby Fin Whale, Cornwall
News:
Humpback Whales near Boulogne
News:
Dolphins mass stranding in Cornwall
News:
White-beaked Dolphin on Belshare, Uist.
News:
Risso's Dolphin in the River Clyde
News:
Sperm Whale stranded in the Moray Firth
News:
Northern
Bottle-nosed Whale beached at Langstone Harbour
News:
Sowerby's Beaked Whale washed up in the Isles of Scilly
News:
White-beaked
Dolphin stranded at Tynemouth
2009
News:
Humpback Whale washed up dead in the Thames
News:
Northern Bottle-nosed Whale in Poole Bay
News:
Juvenile Northern Bottle-nosed Whale in the River Clyde
News:
Northern Bottle-nosed Whale in Lock Eil, near Fort William
Sperm
Whale washed ashore at Balmedie
Photograph
by James Ross
on flickr
News:
Sperm Whale stranded dead on the Aberdeenshire coast, Scotland
News:
Fin Whale washed up dead on the Lancashire coast
2010
25
January 2010
A ten
metre long Sperm Whale, Physeter
macrocephalus,
was discovered after becoming stranded on rocks at Beadnell
Bay on on the Northumberland
Coast, north-east England. The whale had been dead for several days.
News:
Sperm Whale stranded dead off the Northumberland Coast
17-22
February 2010
A
17 metre long Fin
Whale, Balaenoptera
physalis, was spotted by Jean
Lawson floating about three kilometres off
the shore of north Cornwall. The dead mammal then floated north-east until
five days later the huge whale washed up in a cove near Porthtowan,
37 miles away from the first sighting.
Fin Whale washed
up at Porthtowan
Photograph
by David Fenwick Snr
More
Images
News:
Fin Whale stranded dead on north Cornwall
News:
Minke Whale stranded near Montrose
28
June 2010
Dean
Tapley was the first to spot a Sperm
Whale, Physeter macrocephalus,
off
the south coast of Devon in the morning in calm seas. He spent about half
an hour watching the whale and taking pictures before returning to shore
and reporting what he had seen to Paignton Harbourmaster.
"It
was the sound of the water coming out of the blowhole which will stay with
him. It was just so loud," said Dean Tapley.
"It
has been known for these animals to occasionally enter the western English
Channel but very rare for the animal to travel as far east as this and
so close to shore."
BBC
News Report with a Movie Recording
Comments
by Gemma Veneruso (Sea
Watch Foundation)
News:
Sperm Whale seen off south Devon
News:
Huge pod of Bottle-nosed Dolphins off Anglesey
17
July 2010
I
made a wonderful but sad discovery as I walked along the pebbles at Chesil
Cove, Dorset. At first, I could not take in what I was looking at because
it looked, somehow, so artificial – like a large model or toy. This exquisite
creature was a newly born (neonatal) Risso’s
Dolphin, Grampus
griseus.
The
stranded body of this small dolphin was about 1.3 metres long. It looked
unlike any dolphin I had ever seen before and was clearly not a Common
or Bottle-nose Dolphin
as it had no ‘beaked’ snout. The odd shape of the head is characteristic
of this species as also with the dorsal fin, pectoral fins and the tail
flukes.
Full Report
& Images on Jessica’s
Nature Blog
News:
Neonatal Risso's Dolphin washed up on Chesil Cove
News:
Minke Whale breaching off Cornwall
News:
Humpback Whales adult and juvenile washed up in Cornwall
8
August 2010
The
carcass of a baby cetacean
was washed up on the shore at South Heacham Beach, Norfolk. It was about
a metre long and the skull about 23 cm. It is most likely to be a babyHarbour
Porpoise,
Phocoena phocoena.
News:
Baby Cetacean washed up at South Heacham, Norfolk
20
September 2010
Common
Dolphin, Delphinus
delphis, washed up dead at Trebarwith
Strand, on the north coast of Cornwall
It
was about 1.2 metre in length, perhaps 40 kg in mass
Photographs
by Jolyon Sandercock
ID
by Caroline Weir on UK
Cetnet Yahoo Group
ID
confirmed by Dr Kev Robinson
(CRRU)
Cetacean
Research & Rescue Unit
News:
Sperm Whales in the Moray Firth
News:
Pilot Whales in Loch Carnon, Sea of Hebrides
2011
News:
Pilot Whales in the Irish Sea
News:
Sperm Whale washed ashore in Kent
Sperm
Whale
Photograph
by Richard Kinzler
on flickr
News:
White-beaked Dolphin washed up dead in Dorset
News:
Pilot Whales school in Loch Carnon, Outer Hebrides
News:
Fin Whales in the Celtic Sea
News:
Sperm Whale stranded at Redcar, Teeside.
News:
Humpback Whale feeding in the Moray Firth
News:
Sperm Whale off south Devon
News:
Sei Whale off SW Scotland
Stranded Pilot Whale at
Kyle of Durness
Photograph ©
by Alan Airey
Whales
& Dolphins Gallery (by Alan Airey)
News:
Pilot Whales mass stranding in the shallow Kyle of Durness, north Scotland
News:
Fin Whales washed up dead in north Devon
News:
Sowerby's Whale washed up in Norfolk
News:
Sperm Whale died in Ireland
News:
Fin Whale:rescue on the Humber
News:
Sperm Whale off Skye
News:
Sei Whale in the Shetlands
News:
Sei Whale stuck in the mud in the Humber
News:
Sei Whale stranded and died in the Outer Hebrides
News:
Dwarf
Sperm Whale off Cornwall
News:
Sperm Whale off the Orkneys
News:
Dolphins off Sussex (two reports)
News:
Sperm Whale washed up dead at Hunstanton, Norfolk (the Wash)
News:
Minke Whale washed up at Thanet, north Kent
2012
News:
A pod of Killer Whales in Mousa Sound, Shetlands
News:
A pod of Risso's Dolphins off Strumble head, SW Wales
News:
Humpback
Whale off Aberdeen
News:
Fin Whales off Wexford
News:
Sperm Whale
washed up at Skegness
News:
Risso's Dolphins off Shetland
18
April 2012
Dolphins in Cardigan
Bay
2011
Photograph
by Rhys Thatcher
New
evidence has emerged of the distances Cardigan Bay’s Bottle-nosed
Dolphins,
Tursiops truncatus, choose
to travel during the winter months.
Experts
have found at least some of them head north and like to spend their winter
breaks in the seas around the Isle of Man.
Cardigan
Bay Marine Wildlife Centre’s (CBMWC) science
officer Sarah Perry
has been studying photographs taken by Manx conservation groups in Douglas
Bay in January and has managed to identify at least eight of the animals
previously seen off New Quay (SW
Wales).
The
images were taken by the Manx Wildlife Trust marine officer Eleanor
Stone. (Extract)
22
May 2012
Minke Whale
Photograph
by Eleanor Stone/Manx
Wildlife Trust
Click
on the image
for more
photographs
A Minke
Whale, Balaenoptera acutorostrata,
swam around our boat, one of four seen off the Isle
of Man. Minke
Whales are regular
visitors in the seas around this large island in the Irish
Sea, but they are rarely seen up close.
facebook
Report
29
May 2012
A
pod of five to seven Minke
Whales, Balaenoptera acutorostrata,
were spotted by anglers from their boat off Hastings,
East Sussex. Minke Whales are
a very rare sight off the Sussex coast at any time of the year.
Video
Link
The
encounter lasted 15 minutes and this one minute clip showed three of the
whales.
News:
Juvenile Humpback Whale Encounter off Yorkshire
News:
Fin Whale stranding in Cornwall
News:
Fin Whale stranding in County Cork, Ireland
News:
Beaked Whale calf stranding in the Severn estuary
News:
Pod of Pilot Whales stranded at Fife
News:
Blue Whales spotted off Ireland (Porcupine Bight)
News:
Sei Whale stranded dead at Arbroath
News:
Sei Whale stranded off Northumberland
News:
Fin Whale stranded dead on the Suffolk coast
News:
Sowerby's Beaked Whale stranded on a Yorkshire beach
News:
leucistic
all white Harbour Porpoise
News:
Baleen Whale (probably a Fin Whale) washed up on Purbeck, Dorset
News:
Rare white Humpback Whale, off northern Norway
News:
Five Humpback Whales off southern Ireland
2013
News:
Sperm Whales in winter
News:
Fin Whale washed up dead on the Solway coast
News:
Risso's Dolphin stranding, Cornwall
News:
Humpback Whales off Caithness
News:
Sperm Whale at Oban
News:
Pod of 14 Sperm Whales off Scotland
News:
Beaked Whale stranded off Wales
News:
three Beaked Whales stranded off NW Ireland
News:
young Minke Whale washed up in Norfolk
News:
Pod of 15 Risso Dolphins
News:
Super-pod 500 White-sided Dolphins, Unst
News:
Sperm Whale stranded in Holland
News:
Live Minke Whale stranding in the Firth of Forth
News:
True's Beaked Whales in the Porcupine Seabight
Beached
Sei Whale
Photograph
& Report
by Cathal McNaughton
News:
Sei Whale washed up in County Antrim
News:
Sowerby's Beaked Whale and calf stranded on St. Kilda
News:
Humpback Whale off Norfolk
News:
Minke Whales washed up dead in Norfolk
2014
News:
Sperm Whale washed ashore dead at Edinburgh
News:
Sperm Whale washed ashore dead at Sheppey, Kent
News:
Two Sperm Whales washed up dead in Unst
News:
Humpback Whale washed up on Mull
News:
Killer Whale washed up on North Uist
News:
Humpback Whale breaching off Skye
News:
Pygmy Sperm Whale on Anglesey (alive) (dead)
News:
Cuvier’s
Beaked Whale stranded dead on Antrim NI.
News:
Cuvier’s
Beaked Whale stranded dead on Outer Hebrides
2015
News:
Kiiller Whale washed up dead, Co Waterford, Ireland
News:
First ever Bowhead Whale sighting
News:
Sperm Whale stranded dead off Harris
News:
Common Dolphins enter Weymouth Harbour
News:
Humpback Whale off Scilly
News:
Humpback Whale perished off Scotland
News:
Sowerby's
Beaked Whale stranding off Isle of Lewis
News:
white Humpback Whale off Ireland
News:
Beluga Whale off Northern Ireland
News:
Blue Whale off Ireland
24
August 2015
A
spectacular and very rare sighting of the a Blue Whale, Balaenoptera
musculus, occurred over very deep
water 250 miles off the Irish coast was made from the RRS
James Cook on a a five
week scientific expedition in the NE Atlantic. "The
largest creature on the Earth surfaced from the murk of a deep-sea canyon,
lingered just long enough for observers to grab a few pictures, and then
vanished from sight into the fog and rain." This
was only the fourth sighting in the seas surrounding the British Isles
since these great whales were hunted to near extinction nearly a century
ago. The Blue
Whale was spotted by the oceanographers over
the Whittard
Canyon which varies from 200 m to 4000m in depth and is an important
little explored biodiversity route from the very deep sea to the Continental
Shelf. A previous scientific sonar record
had discovered the presence of Blue
Whales off Fastnet in 2000.
This
expedition also recorded the presence of twenty Fin
Whales, Balaenoptera
physalus, including seven seen around the
research vessel when the Blue Whale
surfaced. The
survey team also recorded a Broad-billed Swordfish,
Xiphias
gladius, several
hundred metres below the surface using ROV
Isis.
Blog
of the Expedition
Submarine
Canyons
Previous
Sighting 2012
News:
Two Beluga Whales off Northumberland
News:
50+ Risso's Dolphins off Anglesey
News:
dead Fin Whale off Kent
News:
dead Fin Whale at Cleethorpes
2016
News:
Orca called Lulu found dead
News:
Two Sperm Whales washed ashore in the German Wadden Sea
News:
Five Sperm Whales stranded on the Dutch coast. Total = 13
News:
Sperm Whales washed ashore, east coast of England.
Total = 4
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Once
a Sperm Whale or group of Sperm Whales has
entered the North Sea and continues due south, the animals will reach progressively
shallower waters. The North Sea, and particularly its funnel-shaped southern
sector less than 50 metres deep, is totally unsuitable for Sperm
Whales. Although they must be able to go without
food for quite some time, a prolonged stay in these waters will eventually
prove fatal, if the animals do not find their way out in time.
Historical
Records |
News:
More Sperm Whales washed ashore. Cumulative
total = 29
Cuvier's
Beaked Whale washed ashore in Donegal
Humpback
Whale stranded dead on Outer Hebrides
News:
Bowhead Whale in Cornwall
News:
Bowhead Whale in the Irish Sea
News:
Orca named 'John Coe"
(Scotland) (Western Community)
News:
Orca named 'John Coe"
(Ireland)
Orca
'Hebridean
Community' of Killer Whales (or Western
Community): a community living of the western
seas of Ireland and Scotland
Northern
Isles Community that moves between Iceland and Scotland to hunt
and raise young.
News:
Humpback Whales breaching
News:
Floppy Fin Orca (Northern Isles Community)
Killer Whales
Photograph
by Jodie Sutherland
Shetland
Orca Sightings facebook
Killer Whales near Sandwick,
Shetland
Photograph
by Bev Redfern
News:
Sperm Whale stranding, Cornwall
News:
more Killer Whales in Shetland seas
News:
White-beaked
Dolphins off Cornwall
July
2016
For
a majestic month the residents of the Shetland
Isles enjoyed views of several (maybe four) pods of Killer
Whales, Orcinus
orca, roaming up and down the rocky
coasts of the archipelago, mainly seen from east shores of Mainland,
but nowhere were they predictable, seen coming close inshore under the
cliffs and seen feeding on shoals of of fish,
ducks,
seals
and a Porpoise.
One
pod was over 20 strong.
News:
Humpback Whale off Aberdeen
News:
"John
Coe" Killer Whale off the Hebrides
News;
Fin Whale stranded near Dublin
News:
Killer Whales at Whalsay, Shetland
News:
Fin Whale stranded dead off Noss, Shetland
News:
Fin Whale stranded dead on a Norfolk beach
News:
Leucistic Porpoise
News:
Pygmy Sperm Whale stranded dead
News:
Sowersby's Beaked Whale washed ashore dead
News:
4 Humpback Whales alive
2017
News:
Bowhead Whale, Belgium
News:
Two-headed Porpoise, Netherlands
25
June 2017
Killer Whale, Orca
orcinus, and Calf
from
RV
Celtic Explorer over the Porcupine
Bank
Photograph
by Niall Keogh
News:
20 Minkes off the Isle of Man
2018
News:
Humpback Whale off Cornwall
News:
Orca named 'John Coe"
(Ireland): West
Coast Community (on BBC TV)
News:
Sperm Whale washed upon the Tay
News:
Killer Whale, Orca, in Plymouth Sound
News:
Beluga Whale in the Thames estuary
News:
Risso's Dolphin up river at Goole, North Sea
News:
White-beaked
Dolphin stranded dead in Sussex
News:
Sei Whale dies in Denmark harbour
2019
News:
John Coe, Killer Whale, Moray Firth
News:
Breaching Humpback Whale in the English Channel
News:
Humpback Whale stranded at Oban
News;
Pygmy Sperm Whale washed up dead in Wales
News;
Humpback Whale stranded dead in Thames
News;
Sperm Whale stranded dead in Northumberland
News:
Sowerby's Beaked Whale stranded dead in Scotland
News:
Sei Whale stranded dead in Thames
News;
Baby Sperm Whale stranded dead in Wales
News:
Rescued pod of Common Dolphins, Co. Mayo
News:
Minke Whale at Battersea
News:
Sperm Whale ingested debris, Harris
20
December 2019
John
Coe and Aquarius
from the West
Coast Community
of Killer Whales,
Orcinus
orca, were spotted between Ardnamurchan
and Coll, off the western
coast of Scotland, from onboard the Hebridean
Whale and Dolphin Trust research vessel, Silurian.
2020
10
January 2020
Very
much a surprise discovery, the intact but weeks dead, five metres long
Killer
Whale, Orcinus
orca, found on the extensive vegetated
mud flats of The Wash
on the North Sea
coast was the first one stranded in England and Wales for at least 20 years.
Killer
Whales are still regularly seen around the Scottish isles of Orkney
and Shetland and less
frequently off the Outer
Hebrides. The distance out of its normal habitats is over 650 miles.
News:
Sperm Whale perishes in the Thames estuary
News:
Fin Whale perishes off Cornwall
News:
Sowerby's
Beaked Whale stranded off Wales
News;The
celebrity Killer Whales "John Coe" and
"Aquarius" were spotted clearly in the
enclosed waters of Strangford
Lough, Northern Ireland.
News:
Fin Whale stranding in the southern North Sea
News;
Fin Whale stranded in the Dee Estuary
CSIP:
How to report a stranding
Images:
Killer
Whales, Orcinus orca, around the Lofoten Islands, Norway
UK
Dolphin Watch Image Portfolio, July 2002
White
Humpback Whale "Migaloo" (Australia)
National
Whale Stranding Recording Scheme
Some
Rare Records
Shetland
Wildlife Records 1996
Shetland
Wildlife Records 1997
Shetland
Wildlife Records 1998
Shetland
Wildlife Records 1999
Shetland
Wildlife Records 2000
Shetland
Wildlife Records 2001
Shetland
Wildlife Records 2002
Shetland
Wildlife Records 2003/4
Shetland
Wildlife Records 2005/6
Cornish
Marine Life Records (Ray Dennis) 1993
Cornish
Marine Life Records (Ray Dennis) 1994
Cornish
Marine Life Records (Ray Dennis) 1995
Cornish
Marine Life Records (Ray Dennis) 1996
Cornish
Marine Life Records (Ray Dennis) 1997
Cornish
Marine Life Records (Ray Dennis) 1998
Cornish
Marine Wildlife Reports 1999 (by Ray Dennis)
Cornish
Marine Wildlife Reports 2000 (by Ray Dennis)
Cornish
Marine Wildlife Reports 2001 (by Ray Dennis)
Cornish
Marine Wildlife Reports 2002 (by Ray Dennis)
Cornish
Marine Wildlife Reports 2003 (by Ray Dennis)
Cornish
Marine Wildlife Reports 2004 (by Ray Dennis)
Cornish
Marine Wildlife Reports 2005 (by Ray Dennis)
Cornish
Marine Life Records 2006 (Ray Dennis Records)
Cornish
Marine Life Records 2007 (Ray Dennis Records)
Cornish
Marine Life Records 2008 (Ray Dennis Records)
Cornish
Marine Life Records 2009 (Ray Dennis Records)
Sussex
Cetaceans
Minimising
disturbance to cetaceans from recreation at sea
http://www.defra.gov.uk/wildlife-countryside/whales/cetacean.pdf
Minimising disturbance
to Cetaceans from Whale watching operations
http://www.defra.gov.uk/wildlife-countryside/whales/
Acoustic monitoring of
large whales to the west of Britain and Ireland using bottom mounted hydrophone
arrays
October 1996 - September
1998
http://www.oilandgas.org.uk/issues/afen/v0000632.htm
International Whaling
Commission
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/Homepages/iwcoffice/
MARMAM
Moray
Firth Dolphins: Disease Notes
Zoonosis
(Marine Mammals)
?
What to do if you find a stranded whale or dolphin ?
If
you find a LIVE stranded or injured whale or dolphin on the beach you must
send for help QUICKLY. A whale or dolphin stranding is an emergency and
the speed of response by a professional rescue team is perhaps the most
crucial factor in determining whether or not an animal can be returned
to the sea alive.
The UK
Cetacean Strandings Investigation Programme (CSIP) has been running
since 1990 and is funded by Defra and the Devolved Administrations. They
coordinate the investigation of all whales, dolphins and porpoises (collectively
known as cetaceans), marine turtles and basking sharks that strand around
the UK coastline. As well as documenting each individual stranding, we
also retrieve a proportion for investigation at post-mortem to allow us
to establish a cause of death. The data and samples collected during the
course of our research have also facilitated a large number of international
collaborations, which have addressed a wide range of scientific questions.
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CSIP
Stranded (Dead) Animal Call Line: 0800 6520333
More
Stranded Animal Report Numbers (Link)
EMERGENCY
NUMBERS FOR LIVE CETACEAN STRANDINGS
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ENGLAND
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WALES
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SCOTLAND
|
IRELAND
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0300 1234
999
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0300 1234
999
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0131 339
0111
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CORNWALL
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JERSEY
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GUERNSEY
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SHETLANDS
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0845 201
2626
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01534 724331
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00 44 1481
727967
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