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16
November 2019
Bearded
Seal
Photograph
by John Moncrief
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A
Bearded
Seal, Erignathus
barbatus, made a visit to Bridge
End, Burra,
in the Shetland Isles.
Bearded
Seals are a non-migratory Arctic species that feed on molluscs including
clams. Visits to the most northerly of the Scottish isles are rare and
newsworthy.
BMLSS
Bearded Seals
30
October 2019
A
Sperm Whale, Physeter
macrocephalus,
calf
live
stranded and died at Hell’s
Mouth, Gwynedd, north Wales. This is an unusual stranding, possibly
only the second calf to be recorded stranded in the UK and also the first
Sperm
Whale found stranded in Wales since the routine
recording of strandings began in 1913.
c.
3 September 2019
A
deep water oceanic Tripletail,
Lobotes
surinamensis
was caught in a net at
Bridgwater
Bay (mid Bristol Channel). It was only
the second record of this tropical fish from around Britain.
August
2019
"Watching
birds from Porthgwarra
in Cornwall, I followed a pod of Risso’s
Dolphins, Grampus
griseus, moving west. After they were
lost to view, I was still searching through my scope when a large fish
jumped out of the sea in the middle of my view. The view was for about
a second but I noted the following: about two metres long and powerful
looking, large rayed dorsal fin along its back, strikingly melon-shaped,
with a blunt forehead. This looks like a Dolphinfish,
Coryphaena
hippurus." This
worldwide tropical fish has not been definitely
recorded in British seas before.
There
was an unconfirmed
previous sighting in the Camel
estuary, Cornwall on 1 August 2000.
16
July 2019
The
very first BMLSS record of the Scale-rayed
Wrasse, Acantholabrus
palloni, was video-photographed
off the Isles of Scilly. Its prevalence in
British seas is not known because of too few reports.
BMLSS
Wrasse
8 July
2019
A
2.5 metre long Swordfish,
Xiphias
gladius, was
washed up dead on the extensive sandy west facing beach at Berrrow,
between Brean and Burnham-on-Sea,
Somerset. The early morning unusual discovery was made by Graham
Parker.
BMLSS
Swordfish
9
June 2019
Skipjack
Tuna
Photograph
by Ashley
Wright
A 50
cm long Skipjack Tuna, Katsuwonus
pelamis (=Euthynnus), was discovered
stranded up dead on Par
Beach, Cornwall. This is a rarely caught
species around the British Isles, with the nearest fishery in the Bay
of Biscay.
BMLSS
Tuna
11
June 2019
A
Pygmy Sperm Whale, (V) Kogia breviceps,
was washed ashore dead at Ginst
Point in Carmarthenshire,
SW Wales. It was in good condition and will be examined in London. This
whale is a rare vagrant around the British Isles.
BMLSS
Cetacea
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.
BMLSS
Portuguese Man o'War
8 February
2019
A
vagrant adult Black-browed Albatross,
Thalassarche
melanophris, showed for six minutes
flying above the rough sea off Lizard
Point, Cornwall.
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