National Whale and Dolphin Watch 2024
National Whale and Dolphin Watch is an opportunity for people of all ages and backgrounds to get involved in marine conservation and make a meaningful contribution to the protection of marine mammals. No special knowledge is needed to take part. Keen observers can sign up to training courses, or use [...]
East coast dolphins
This blog post (26 April 2024) in Scotland’s Nature shares How is Scotland’s east coast bottlenose dolphin population doing? It includes a short video at the end of monitoring work.
Monitoring cetaceans in the Hebrides
Scotland’s Nature blog posted 31 July 2023 shares a story by Rona Sinclair, from Nature Scot’s marine survey team. Rona jumped aboard Silurian, the Hebridean Whale and Dolphin Trust’s (HWDT) research vessel, to join the crew for a trip from Ullapool back down to Silurian’s home in Tobermory. Read how she discovered how [...]
Leaping dolphins, or leumadair
This post in Scotland’s Nature (19 August 2021) also in Gaelic, shares information on the various species of dolphin which live around our Scottish coast - including the impressive Orca, or ‘Sea-wolf’!
