Marinelife: Channel Marine Mammal & Seabird Survey

Friday, 27 July 2012

25 JULY, 2012

Marinelife/Naturetrek pelagic - Lyme Bay

Totals included 23 White-beaked Dolphin, 1 Minke Whale, 10 Harbour Porpoise, 1 Ocean Sunfish, 7 Balearic Shearwater, 2000 Manx Shearwater, 1000 Gannet, Pomarine Skua, 5 Great Skua, 5 European Storm-petrel

8 Common Dolphin 1 mile south of Lyme Regis at 13:00

MarineLife is a UK charity that carries out research, educational and conservation work on whales, dolphins, seabirds and other marine animals in the oceans of North-west Europe.

From 2009-2011 Marinelife is carrying out the biggest ever survey of cetaceans and seabirds in the western English Channel through the CHARM III Project, 50% funded under the European Union’s Interreg IV programme. Read all the latest news and sightings here.

Send us your noteworthy cetacean and seabird sightings to sightings@marine-life.org.uk. Find out more details here.

MarineLife est une organisation Britannique qui conduit des programmes de recherche, de sensibilisation et de protection sur les cétacées, les oiseaux marins et sur d'autres animaux des mers et océans de l'Europe du Nord-Ouest. Entre 2009 et 2011, MarineLife entreprend la plus vaste enquête d'observation des cétacées et des oiseaux marins jamais menée en Manche Ouest sous la dénomination CHARM III. Ce projet est cofinancé à 50% par le programme Interreg IV de l'Union Européenne.

www.marine-life.org.uk