Warm-Water Fish, Ceteceans Appearing Off Scottish Coast - The Australian

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The Hebridean Whale and Dolphin Trust has also recorded changes in the habits of minke whales. Until 2005, minkes arrived in the (northern) spring and stayed until October and November, but they are now leaving in July and August. The trust monitors whale and dolphin populations around the Argyll Islands, which are regarded as an important European cetacean habitat.

Nearly a third of the world's population of whales, dolphins and porpoises have been recorded there.

Cally Fleming, the chief executive of the trust, said warm-water species such as the striped dolphin and common dolphin, both of which are from the Mediterranean, were regularly sighted in Argyll.

Sightings of basking sharks and beaked whales, a warm-water species rarely seen in the Hebrides, were also becoming increasingly common. There has been a corresponding decline in sightings of colder-water cetaceans such as the white-sided dolphin and the white-beaked dolphin.

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