The Azores Constitute a Migratory Stopover for Humpback Whales in the North Atlantic Ocean
While humpback whales have long been known to occur in the Azores, their numbers have been few, providing little opportunity to investigate their movement patterns or habitat use.
Cetacean surveys in the Cape Verde Islands
We examined the distribution of cetaceans in the waters of the Cape Verde Islands in 2000 and 2001. Sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus), a Yankee whaling target species in these waters, were commonly detected acoustically and visually along with smaller cetacean species, predominantly in the northeast, windward quarter of the archipelago.
Bryde’s whales, Balaenoptera edeni, observed in the Azores
The first sighting was of a mother and calf pair on 3 July. This pair was seen on several other occasions during the summer.In addition five other individuals were observed separately from the mother–calf pair.