Observations in the Species: Tursiops truncatus
English Name: Bottle-nosed Dolphin or Bottlenosed dolphin
By: Gill Sinclair
Location: GBLat/Lng: 57.574, -4.088
OS grid ref: NH752556
Chanonry Point
Close Observed on: 16th May 2013
Added to iSpot: 19th May 2013
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 6
Comments: 3
Description: Large, grey dolphins feeding close to shore. Distinct 'beak' to face and large, sickle-shaped dorsal fin about half way along body. Often raised tail flukes clear of water when fishing, sometimes breached clear of water.
By: Gill Sinclair
Observed on: 16th May 2013
Added to iSpot: 19th May 2013
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 10
Comments: 1
Description: Two large, grey dolphins with distinct 'beak' to face and large, sickle-shaped dorsal fin about half way along body. May have been feeding as stayed in roughly same location for some time.
By: trevindevon
Observed on: 4th January 2013
Added to iSpot: 4th January 2013
Identifications: 2
Agreements: 4
Comments: 5
Description: Single dolphin of about 6-7ft. Very close inshore near river mouth.
By: Batman
Observed on: 7th November 2012
Added to iSpot: 27th December 2012
Identifications: 2
Agreements: 0
Comments: 1
Description: This skull is in our local museum as a "large unidentified skull".
I have tried to identify it with the pictures in Marine Mammals of the World on the internet.
I think it might be Bottlenose Dolphin but the length is a bit short, more like a Harbour Porpoise.
It has no teeth but holes for 27 or 28.
There is no indication of where it came from.
Is it possible for some one to identify it from these pictures?
Observed on: 6th October 2012
Added to iSpot: 1st November 2012
Identifications: 2
Agreements: 5
Comments: 0
Observed on: 18th September 2012
Added to iSpot: 18th September 2012
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 7
Comments: 0
Description: Watched this pod from 1100-1200. Feeding with short frenetic burst of socailising and play - including chasing through the wake of a speed boat and bow riding a jammy so and so's catamaran.
Usually three on surface, saw up to six, working on the rule of thumb that for each one on the surface there are two below I'd guess a pod of nine or ten - which fits in with reports of a pod of ten seen earlier in the year
By: Mark at Magdalen
Observed on: 13th July 2012
Added to iSpot: 16th August 2012
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 8
Comments: 1
By: lb2668
Observed on: 11th March 2012
Added to iSpot: 13th March 2012
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 6
Comments: 0
Description: Part of a pod of about 7 that were seen.
By: Tamsin
Observed on: 29th February 2012
Added to iSpot: 7th March 2012
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 11
Comments: 2
By: Gill Sinclair
Observed on: 6th July 2002
Added to iSpot: 26th February 2012
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 8
Comments: 2
Observed on: 20th February 2002
Added to iSpot: 19th December 2011
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 0
Comments: 0
By: Ben Arthur
Observed on: 27th July 2011
Added to iSpot: 21st August 2011
Identifications: 2
Agreements: 7
Comments: 5
By: jason.birt
Location: Beacon Dr, St AgnesLat/Lng: 50.3196, -5.2361
OS grid ref: SW697516
Brilliant watch-point allowing views to Trevose Head near Padstow in the east and to a collection of rocky outcrops a few kms past St Ives to the west.
Close Observed on: 30th July 2011
Added to iSpot: 1st August 2011
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 6
Comments: 1
Description: Spotted from St Agnes Head as part of an event organised by Dan Murphy and James Agnew of Cornwall Wildlife Trust to publicise Netsafe, a project to ascertain the effectiveness of pingers (devices to ward away cetaceans from nets). About 50 people turned up throughout the day to see what we were up to. About 1pm, 8-10 bottlenose made a very close appearance and could be observed for 15 minutes nearby and for about the next hour with a pair of binoculars or a scope as they made their way westwards past Porthtowan and Portreath.
By: oriole
Observed on: 6th July 2011
Added to iSpot: 12th July 2011
Identifications: 2
Agreements: 3
Comments: 3
Description: A pod of five cetaceans swam into Tianavaig Bay from the south and out again moving north. I was scanning the bay for birds at the time and had binoculars and a telescope, so had reasonably good views. I saw no markings on any of the 5 individuals. The parts which showed above the water appeared to be uniformly black. At their closest approach I could hear them blowing.
Observed on: 30th August 2006
Added to iSpot: 24th May 2011
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 5
Comments: 1
By: Chambly
Observed on: 23rd June 2006
Added to iSpot: 14th March 2011
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 4
Comments: 1
Description: Dolphin moving lazily in circles in the River Beauly a good 2km from the river mouth.
By: JanaGolisch
Observed on: 14th June 2010
Added to iSpot: 19th January 2011
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 4
Comments: 3
Description: Observed off the coast of Birsay, Mainland, Orkney.
Observed on: 11th June 2010
Added to iSpot: 11th June 2010
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 4
Comments: 1
Description: Two adult BNDs close inshore near the harbour, moving North around the bay. Not great images for ID, but I had to jump of the bus just to get these. The third image is just to give some impression of size.
By: gordong60
Observed on: 11th May 2010
Added to iSpot: 31st May 2010
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 2
Comments: 3
Description: Escorted by pod of approx 10 dolphins
By: jason.birt
Location: Off NewquayLat/Lng: 50.42, -5.14
OS grid ref: SW7763
Choppy, wind NE force 4. Sea state 4. Actually fleetingly spotted on way out but they joined us on way back.
Close Observed on: 10th March 2010
Added to iSpot: 18th March 2010
Identifications: 2
Agreements: 3
Comments: 1
Description: Some pictures of bottlenosed dolphins who joined us while we were returning from a sampling trip near St Agnes. About seven of them. We stuck to the WiSE guidelines and they approached us. We motored slowly and after 15 minutes they got bored. Perhaps we were going too slowly!
Observed on: 6th August 2007
Added to iSpot: 3rd February 2010
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 3
Comments: 2
By: isabelb
Observed on: 6th August 2007
Added to iSpot: 3rd January 2010
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 4
Comments: 3
