Sperm whale, Waterford Estuary, March 25th 2025 | Irish Whale and Dolphin Group

To give today's incident a little perspective, since the IWDG was established almost 35 years ago, we’ve documented 5,856 sightings of our smallest baleen whale, the minke, 2,111 sightings of our largest and fastest coastal whale, the mighty fin whale, and 1,705 records and counting, of our most charismatic whale, the humpback. All these big

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Whale Watch Ireland 2024, Saturday 18th May @ 17:00-19:00 | Irish Whale and Dolphin Group

On Saturday 18th May, IWDG in association with Inis, invite you to Whale Watch Ireland 2024 between 5:00-7:00 PM. This annual event, now in its 22nd year, comprises free and guided whale watches at local headlands and vantage points, as part of All-Ireland whale watch day. This year’s event is being held earlier than usual in

Bottlenose dolphin in process of giving birth from West Cork….a rare capture. | Irish Whale and Dolphin Group

On April 15th we received a report of a large group of c.25 bottlenose dolphins off Barleycove beach in West Cork by Siobhan O’ Driscoll. As this report came with a suite of images, it didn’t require much by way of validation and was duly processed and entered onto www.iwdg.ie. Two days later we received

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