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Friday 17th May 2013 Whale-Watching weekend course May
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Thursday 16th May 2013 Second gray whale for the Atlantic -
Tuesday 14th May 2013 Strandings in Mayo and Donegal -
Tuesday 7th May 2013 First study on diet of fin and
humpback whales in Irish waters for
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Thu23rd May 2013 | Historically the basking shark season is a late spring early summer affair in Irish waters, of course there are always likely to be a few outliers that arrive early and stay late, but the vast majority of sightings are between April-July. The peak period is pretty well right now, May/June.… |  |
Thu16th May 2013 | Prior to 9th May 2010, we'd have said the only way IWDG members could see gray whales was by joining an overseas trip to Baja California in Mexico, such as the members trip we delivered in 2009. This would have been a reasonable assumption based on the fact that the… |  |
Tue14th May 2013 | Some unusual stranding events have occurred in recent days off the northwest coast. On Sunday 12 May, seven common dolphins (five adults and two juveniles) live stranded at Tarmon Beach near Blacksod on the Mullet Peninsula, Co. Mayo. Attempts to refloat them were successful on a number of occasions but one of the juveniles was… |  |
Tue7th May 2013 | First study on diet of fin and humpback whales in Irish waters for one hundred years A team of Irish Whale and Dolphin Group, Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology and Marine Institute scientists has just published the first information on the diet of fin and humpback whales in Ireland for one… |  |
Wed1st May 2013 | 20 years ago today, the first research trip into the Shannon Estuary to try and find bottlenose dolphins was carried out. The waters west from Carrigaholt in west Clare were surveyed but we returned five hours later without seeing a single dolphin !! The following day (3 May, 1993) we tried again and… |  |
Fri12th Apr 2013 | IWDG were informed today that the EPA have recommended that Dublin City Councils application for a Dumping at Sea licence in connection with the proposed wastewater treatment plant be withdrawn due to the late submission of an updated screening document for the Appropriate Assessment and Natura Impact Statement. The letter… |  |
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