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Update from our volunteer vacation / conservation holiday protecting whales, dolphins and turtles around the Azores archipelago (www.biosphere-expeditions.org/azores)
Photo archive of the 2016 expedition:
False killer whale (c) Craig Turner
False killer whales and Pico (c) Criaig Turner
Risso’s dolphin with calf (c) Craig Turner
Fin whale (c) Craig Turner
Sperm whale (c) Craig Turner
Breaching false killer whale (c) Craig Turner
Deploying the hydrophone
Laura recording data
Lynn listening to the hydrophone
Fin whale (taken by Craig Turner)
Sperm whale (taken by Craig Turner)
Sperm whale fluke (taken by Craig Turner)
Sperm whale fluke for ID (taken by Craig Turner)
Multiple sperm whales (taken by Craig Turner)
Following sperm whales (taken by Craig Turner)
Celine recording data (taken by Craig Turner)
Southern coast of Faial (taken by Craig Turner)
Some of the team on lookout (taken by Craig Turner)
Fin whale with calf
Bottlenose dolphins
Sperm whale fluke
Fin whale (taken by Craig Turner)
Fin whale (taken by Craig Turner)
Sperm whale fluke (taken by Craig Turner)
Sperm whale fluke for ID (taken by Craig Turner)
Cory’s shearwaters (taken by Craig Turner)
Sperm whale with Cory’s shearwaters (taken by Craig Turner)
Tracking a Fin whale (taken by Craig Turner)
Recording sperm whale data (taken by Craig Turner)
Recording sperm whale data (taken by Craig Turner)
Data sheet (taken by Craig Turner)
Sperm whale recorded last week and also recorded in 2014 (Craig Turner)
Team on the boat (Craig Turner)
Team on the boat (Craig Turner)
Risso’s dolphin (Craig Turner)
The reality of cetacean research (Craig Turner)
Waves in the harbour – never good news (Craig Turner)
Brief sighting of a fin whale (Craig Turner)
Following a sperm whale
Male sperm whale fluke, but not for ID
A better sperm whale fluke ID image, but not perfect
How many sperms whales do you see?
Pico smoking
Camila on aft lookout duty
Sunshine over Pico
Carol and Camila recording blow rates of sperm whales
A busy day of data for Scott
The sun does not always shine
Working in the shadow of Pico
Bottlenose dolphins
Bottlenose dolphin
The ideal dorsal fin ID shot
Dorsal fins of Risso’s dolphins
Risso’s dolphin with calf
Male sperm whale seen on the same day in 2009 and 2016
Fin whale blow
Fin whale with characteristic white jaw
Sperm whale off the north coast of Faial
Sailing south of Faial island
Western point of Faial island
Stuart and Camila recording data
The team (by Lisa Steiner)
Fin whale and calf (by Julie Bork)
Rolling fin whale (by Uwe Burkhardt)
Fin whale with characteristic white jaw
Blue whale with fin whale
Risso’s dolphin
Fin whale fin
Characteristic mottling of a blue whale
Team on alert
The fly deck team on alert
Julie on aft lookout
David on hydrophone
Capturing the action
Carol on ‘POPA’
Sailing past Pico
Returning to Horta
Blue whale blow
Common dolphin (Craig Turner)
Harbour-side briefing from Lisa (Craig Turner)
Boat orientation (Craig Turner)
Close encounter of a blue (whale) kind (Craig Turner)
Blue whale south of Pico (Craig Turner)
Silvio hard at work recording data (Craig Turner)
The characteristic mottling and colouration of the blue whale (Craig Turner)
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