Orca said the “high density” marine wildlife areas seem to have shifted north to the Uig-Lochmaddy-Tarbert and the Ullapool-Stornoway routes – a trend first noticed last year.<\/p>\n
On Uig-Lochmaddy-Tarbert, minke whale were spotted and 25 common dolphins swimming together in a “super pod”.<\/p>\n
On the route between Ullapool and Stornoway, there was an occasion when 13 harbour porpoise were seen.<\/p>\n
Spotted on the route at various times were common dolphin super pods numbering between 13 and 30.<\/p>\n
The species, which hunt squid and fish including herring and mackerel, were also seen bow riding – swimming in groups in front of ferries.<\/p>\n
However, the Oban-Castlebay <\/b>route recorded the most species.<\/p>\n
They included harbour porpoise, common dolphin, minke whale and grey seal.<\/p>\n
On another route – Oban to Tiree – 30 sightings of harbour porpoise were seen across the survey.<\/p>\n
These animals are described as shy and make a “chuff” sound when they come to the surface to breathe.<\/p>\n
Orca said: “Very excitingly a pod of five orcas were seen on the <\/b>Uig-Lochmaddy-Tarbert route.<\/p>\n
“The most productive surveys were the July and October Ullapool-Stornoway surveys, where more than 100 animals were recorded on each survey.”<\/p>\n
Other organisations also survey Scotland’s sea life, including the Hedridean Whale and Dolphin Trust and Whale and Dolphin Conservation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Orca said the “high density” marine wildlife areas seem to have shifted north to the Uig-Lochmaddy-Tarbert and the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":600406,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3847],"tags":[70,16,15,1717],"class_list":{"0":"post-600405","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom","11":"tag-wildlife"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115630614965267201","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=600405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600405\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/600406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=600405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=600405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=600405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}