By Helena Coles, Research Intern Pupping season is making a splash in Cardigan Bay! Every year from September until November the female Atlantic Grey Seal (Halichoerus grypus) come ashore to give birth to 1 pup. Remarkably, the UK is host to 40% of the world population of grey seals (
On the 11th of July 2024, 77 long-finned pilot whales stranded on Tresness Beach on the Isle of Sanday in Orkney. This is thought to be the largest mass stranding event in Scotland since 1995. When the British Divers Marine Life Rescue (BDMLR) medics arrived at the scene, they found t
It has been an incredible week for wildlife in Cardigan Bay! The Sea Watch team were treated to an amazing minke whale sighting on 20th June, 2024, exactly one year after the first reported minke whale sighting in the bay in a decade. The team were conducting a line transect survey, t