Ron Bury's Wildlife: 01/01/2015

Friday, 30 January 2015

Hebridean sightings soar for harbour porpoises but plunge for basking sharks

Minke whale next to Silurian

Harbour porpoise sightings off Scotland’s west coast increased by 25 per cent in 2014 compared to the previous year while sightings of basking sharks unexpectedly fell by 33 per cent, during marine research expeditions carried out by Hebridean Whale and Dolphin Trust.

The charity’s extensive research also revealed dramatic evidence of a shark attack on a member of an endangered group of killer whales thought to be the UK’s only resident population of orca.

The latest studies were carried out in a research

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