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The Phantom Menace: A Ghost Story

Jun 08, 2015
by Harriet Goodchild
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cetacean, Cetacean Strandings Investigation Programme, conservation, ghostfishing, ghostnets, volunteer, wod2015
Written by Beth Byrne It’s a cold dark night, dim streaks of light flicker gently on your face. You move slowly and carefully through the silence. When all of a sudden you feel something slip around your neck. You struggle to free yourself, the more you move, the tighter it becomes. Y
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From Sea To Shore: Strand Feeding

Jun 01, 2015
by Harriet Goodchild
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cetacean, dolphin, feeding, strand feeding
Beach Hunting as a Foraging Strategy in Orcas and Dolphins If you are an avid whale watcher, I’m sure you’ve seen whales or dolphins feeding a couple times, or at least have some idea of what it’s like: you’ll see one or more animals splashing around near the surface and you may even
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Geographical Variations In Bottlenose Dolphins

May 26, 2015
by Harriet Goodchild
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bottlenose dolphin, cetacean, geographical variation
Geographical Variations In Bottlenose Dolphins  (Tursiops truncatus) When I first saw bottlenose dolphins in the UK something about their physical appearance caught my attention: these were much bigger, robust and dark animals than any other bottlenose dolphins I had seen so far in co
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Spectacular Survey Sightings

May 22, 2015
by Harriet Goodchild
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cardigan bay, cardigan bay monitoring project, cetaceans, dolphins, line transect, New Quay, survey, wales, west wales
Written by Valentin Neamtu 22nd May 2015 This week marked the first line transect survey of the season for us here at the Sea Watch Foundation in New Quay. During a line transect survey we go out on a boat in a straight line in a given area and record how many dolphins and other cetac
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Plastic: It’s Not Fantastic

May 21, 2015
by Harriet Goodchild
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cetaceans, marine debris, micro plastics, ocean clean up, plastic, plastic free july, two minute beach clean
Written By Stephanie Sardelis, May 21 2015   Saturday was a stunning, warm and bustling day here in New Quay, Wales. While visitors lounged on the beach and snacked on ice cream, our Sea Watch interns were happily scanning the local beaches for unwelcome waste. Four large bin bags and
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