SELECT RECENT SIGHTINGS YEAR FROM ABOVE.
Number of reports received 2011 = 307.
Caithness North coast = 138. Caithness East coast = 114. North Sutherland = 55.
Species Stats for Caithness 2011.
Numbers refer to number of sightings reports and not number of animals seen.
| Species | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | June | July | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Total |
Fin Whale | 0 | ||||||||||||
Humpback Whale | 0 | ||||||||||||
Northern Bottlenose Whale | 0 | ||||||||||||
Minke Whale | 3 | 4 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 19 | |||||||
Killer Whale | 2 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 16 | |||||||
Pilot Whale | 0 | ||||||||||||
Bottlenose Dolphin | 1 | 3 | 4 | ||||||||||
Risso's Dolphin | 8 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 27 | ||||||
Atlantic white-sided Dolphin | 1 | 6 | 2 | 9 | |||||||||
White-beaked Dolphin | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||||
Common Dolphin | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
Striped Dolphin | 0 | ||||||||||||
Harbour Porpoise | 5 | 3 | 6 | 11 | 9 | 23 | 23 | 46 | 14 | 18 | 4 | 162 | |
Unknown Whale | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
Unknown Dolphin | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 11 | ||||||
| Total | |||||||||||||
Total | 5 | 4 | 6 | 24 | 22 | 40 | 41 | 64 | 17 | 25 | 4 | 252 |
Speices stats for North Sutherland.
| Species | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Total |
Fin Whale | 0 | ||||||||||||
Humpback Whale | 0 | ||||||||||||
Northern Bottlenose Whale | 0 | ||||||||||||
Minke Whale | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||||
Killer Whale | 2 | 2 | |||||||||||
Pilot Whale | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
Bottlenose Dolphin | 0 | ||||||||||||
Risso's Dolphin | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 13 | |||||||
Atlantic white-sided Dolphin | 0 | ||||||||||||
White-beaked Dolphin | 5 | 5 | |||||||||||
Common Dolphin | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
Striped Dolphin | 0 | ||||||||||||
Harbour Porpoise | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 27 | ||||
Unknown Whale | 0 | ||||||||||||
Unknown Dolphin | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | |||||||||
| Total | |||||||||||||
Total | 0 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 4 | 5 | 10 | 15 | 11 | 0 | 1 | 55 |
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Number of reports received during 2010 = 372.
Caithness North Coast = 133. Caithness East Coast = 162. North Sutherland Coast = 77.
Species Stats for Caithness 2010.
Numbers refer to number of sighting reports and not number of animals seen.
| Species | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Total |
Fin Whale | 0 | ||||||||||||
Humpback Whale |
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| 1 | 1 |
Northern Bottlenose Whale |
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| 1 |
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| 1 |
Minke Whale |
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| 1 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 2 |
|
| 23 |
Killer Whale |
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| 18 | 2 |
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| 20 |
Pilot Whale |
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|
| 1 |
| 2 |
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|
| 3 |
Bottlenose Dolphin |
| 1 | 1 |
|
| 1 |
| 1 |
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| 4 |
Risso's Dolphin |
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| 1 | 4 | 7 | 25 | 4 | 3 |
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| 44 |
Atlantic White-sided Dolphin |
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| 1 |
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| 1 |
White-beaked Dolphin |
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| 1 |
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| 1 |
Common Dolphin |
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| 4 | 4 |
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| 8 |
Striped Dolphin |
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| 0 |
Harbour Porpoise | 2 | 7 | 6 | 18 | 18 | 36 | 21 | 40 | 18 | 6 | 2 | 5 | 179 |
Unknown Whale |
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| 1 | 1 | 1 |
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| 3 |
Unknown Dolphin |
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| 2 | 3 | 1 |
| 1 |
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| 7 |
Total | |||||||||||||
Total | 2 | 8 | 8 | 25 | 55 | 74 | 31 | 51 | 25 | 8 | 2 | 6 | 295 |
Species Stats for North Sutherland 2010.
| Species | Jan | Feb | Mar | April | May | June | July | Aug | Sept | Oct | Nov | Dec | Total |
| Fin Whale | 0 | ||||||||||||
| Humpback Whale | 0 | ||||||||||||
| Sperm Whale | 0 | ||||||||||||
| Minke Whale | 11 | 8 | 9 | 28 | |||||||||
| Killer Whale | 0 | ||||||||||||
| Pilot Whale | 0 | ||||||||||||
| Bottlenose Dolphin | 0 | ||||||||||||
| Risso's Dolphin | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 11 | ||||||
| Atlantic White-sided Dolphin | 0 | ||||||||||||
| White-beaked Dolphin | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Common Dolphin | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Striped Dolphin | 0 | ||||||||||||
| Harbour Porpoise | 4 | 15 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 34 | |||||||
| Unknown Whale | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Unknown Dolphin | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Unknown Cetacean Species | 0 | ||||||||||||
| Total | |||||||||||||
| Total | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 30 | 21 | 15 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 77 |
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Number of reports reports receiced during 2009 = 401.
Caithness North coast = 188. Caithness East Coast = 155. North Sutherland Coast = 58.
Species Stats for Caithness 2009.
Numbers refer to sighting reports and not number of animals seen.
| Species | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | JUl | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Total |
| Fin Whale Whale |
| 0 | |||||||||||
Humpback Whale |
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| 1 | 1 |
Sperm Whale |
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| 0 |
Minke Whale |
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| 1 | 7 | 7 | 15 | 19 | 2 | 1 |
|
| 52 |
Killer Whale | 1 |
|
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| 2 | 3 |
| 1 |
| 1 |
|
| 8 |
| Pilot Whale | 1 | 2 | 3 | ||||||||||
| Bottlenose Dolphin |
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| 1 | 1 |
| 2 |
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| 4 | |
| Risso's Dolphin | 4 | 5 | 10 | 3 | 8 | 3 | 4 |
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| 37 | ||
| Atlantic White-sided dolphin | 1 |
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| 1 | ||||||||
| White-beaked Dolphin | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 5 |
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| 12 | ||||
| Common Dolphin | 2 | 4 | 1 | 2 |
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| 9 | ||||
| Striped Dolphin | 0 | ||||||||||||
| Harbour Porpoise | 1 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 13 | 22 | 68 | 43 | 23 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 196 |
| Unknown Whale | 1 | 2 |
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| 3 | ||||
| Unknown Dolphin | 2 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 2 |
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| 1 |
| 17 | |||
| Unknown Cetacean | 0 | ||||||||||||
| Total | |||||||||||||
| Total | 2 | 2 | 10 | 19 | 42 | 46 | 102 | 75 | 31 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 343 |
Species Stats for North Sutherland 2009.
| Species | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Total |
| Fin Whale | 0 | ||||||||||||
| Humpback Whale | 0 | ||||||||||||
| Sperm Whale | 0 | ||||||||||||
| Minke Whale | 6 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 16 | ||||||||
| Killer Whale | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Pilot Whale | 0 | ||||||||||||
| Bottlenose Dolphin | 0 | ||||||||||||
| Risso's Dolphin | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | |||||||||
| Atlantic Whiteisided Dolphin | 0 | ||||||||||||
| White-beaked Dolphin | 3 | 3 | |||||||||||
| Commnon Dolphin | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||||
| Striped Dolphin | 0 | ||||||||||||
| Harbour Porpoise | 3 | 6 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 25 | |||||||
| Unknown Whale | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Unknown Dolphin | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | |||||||||
| Unknown Cetacean | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||||
| Total | |||||||||||||
| Total | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 12 | 11 | 20 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 58 |