Records from the Irish Whale and Dolphin GroupAuthor(s): T. Bruton and E. RoganSource: The Irish Naturalists' Journal, Vol. 25, No. 4 (Oct., 1995), p. 149Published by: Irish Naturalists' Journal Ltd.Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25535949 .

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Ir. Nat. J. Vol. 25 No. 4 1995 149

RECORDS FROM THE IRISH WHALE AND DOLPHIN GROUP

Compilers: T. BRUTON, Department of Zoology, Ulster Museum, Belfast.

E. ROGAN, Department of Zoology, University College, Cork.

All records below have been submitted with adequate documentation and/or photographs to put identification beyond doubt. The dates given are those on which the animals were observed. Unless

otherwise stated a linear measurement refers to the length of the specimen.

Minke whale Balaenoptera acutorostrata Lacepede 1 male. 4.08m. Stranded 4.8.94. Ballycotton, Co Cork (W9964). E. Rogan, S. Berrow.

1 unsexed. 6.55m. Stranded 9.6.95. Pollatomish, Co Mayo (F8337). D. Strong. 1 male. 6.2m. Tangled in drift net 10.7.95. Brought ashore but died 11.7.95. Crookhaven. Co

Cork (V8023). D. O'Donnell, E. Rogan, O. Kiely, C. Nadarajah.

Common porpoise Phocaena phocaena (L.) 1 female. 1.33m. Stranded 3.2.94. Dingle Harbour, Co Kerry (Q4201). K. Flannery, S. Berrow,

M. Cronin.

1 unsexed. 1.22m. Stranded 31.3.94. Quigley's Point, Co Donegal (C5131). S. Doherty. i female. 1.15m. Stranded 7.5.94. Dingle, Co Kerry, (V4699) K. Flannery, E. Rogan. 1 female. 1.45m. Stranded 27.1.95. Carnlough, Co Antrim (D293165). R. Rudduck.

Pilot whale Globiocephala melaena (Traill) 1 unsexed. c8.5m. Stranded before 3.12.94. nr Tragumna, Skibbereen, Co Cork (W1227). E.

Rogan. 1 female. 6m. Stranded 22.2.95. Toe Head Bay. Co Cork (W1428). R. Jackson, S. Berrow.

Bottle-nosed dolphin Tursiops truncatus (Montagu) 1 unsexed 1.45m. Stranded 19.7.89. Dunmoran Strand, Co Sligo (G5833). D. Cotton.

Risso's dolphin Grampus griseus (Cuvier)

1 female. 3.35m. Stranded 10.6.94. Strandhill, Co Sligo (G6035). D. Cotton.

1 unsexed. c3m. Stranded 4.12.94. Tacumshin Burrow, Co Wexford (T040054) J Hurley. I unsexed. 3.04m. Stranded 14.6.95. Carrickadda Point nr Easkey, Co Sligo (G3638). D.

Cotton, D. Newmarch.

White-beaked dolphin Lagenorhynchus albirostria (Gray) 1 female. 2.97m. Stranded H.2.94. Indigo Rocks, Gerahies, Co Cork (V8944). S. Berrow, C.

Douthwaite.

White-sided dolphin Lagenorhynchus acutus (Gray) 1 unsexed. 2.3m. Stranded 3.9.93. Raughly, Co Sligo (G5742). D. Cotton.

1 male. 2.55m. Stranded 19.4.94. Trellis Beach, nr Baltimore, Co Cork (W0456). S. Gallagher, E. Rogan, O. Kiely.

1 unsexed. 2.28m. Stranded 26.3.95. Inishcrone, Co Sligo (G2830). D. Cotton.

1 male. 2.54m. Stranded 30.3.95. Fenit Island, Fenit, Co Kerry (Q7116). E. Power.

1 male. 2.16m. Stranded 5.4.95. Deanish Island, Castletownbere, Co Cork (V6846). D.

Osborne.

1 female. 1.99m. Stranded 5.4.95. Cumeen, Allihies, Co Cork. (V5647). D. Osborne.

Common dolphin Delphinus delphis L.

Many unsexed observed and photographed at 3m distance from boat at sea for 20 minutes

24.9.93 between Mullaghmore Head and mishrnurray, Co Sligo (G65). R. Lomax via D. Cotton.

1 male. 1.84m. Stranded 13.1.94. Ballydonegan, Co Cork (V5744). D. Osborne, E. Rogan, S.

Berrow.

1 male. 1.95m. Stranded 14.2.94. Graball Bay, Co Cork (W8161). M. Coffey.

Euphrosyne dolphin Stenella coeruleoalba (Meyen) 1 unsexed. 1.68m. Stranded 29.4.92. Bushfoot Strand, Co Antrim, (C934426). J. Greer.

2 females. 1.51m, 1.43m. Stranded 22.3.94. Red Barn, Youghal, Co Cork. P. Smiddy, O. Kiely, M. Cronin.

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