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Elding's research team
Sep 8, 2020
Bubble Net Feeding
On our whale watching tour on Sunday, September 6th, we had the chance to witness a behaviour that is still unclear to researchers and...
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Elding's research team
Jul 4, 2020
Whale frenzy in Faxaflói bay!
We've been back on the water for the last two weeks, and the comeback couldn't have been more thrilling, even in our wildest dreams. As...
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Elding's research team
Feb 26, 2020
TWO NEW WHALES ADDED TO OUR WILDLIFE CATALOGUE
New additions to our humpback whale catalogue were added on 25 February 2020. They were the first two humpback whales of the year and...
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Elding's research team
Feb 18, 2020
WHALES: RETURNING AFTER WINTER
"It's that time of the year again when the whales that migrated to their breeding grounds over winter to the warmer, sub-tropical waters,...
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Elding's research team
Oct 6, 2019
WHALES: PREPARING FOR WINTER
"It seems like the humpback whales are slowly beginning their migration into the more tropical waters! In the past week, we have...
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Elding's research team
May 29, 2019
Humpback whales
Elding began its dedicated research of the three main encountered species, white-beaked dolphins, minke whales and humpback whales, in...
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Elding's research team
May 24, 2019
NAMING WHALES
How do we determine the scientific names of new humpback whales? Well, it's really quite simple, actually. The name consists of: MN,...
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Elding's research team
May 24, 2019
FIELD WORK
Elding has a supported whale research by local and international scientists for years and sometimes they join us onboard to study the...
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Elding's research team
May 23, 2019
FLUKEBOOK PROJECT
Elding participates in the Flukebook project; a programme that connects whale watchers around the world so that they can share photo-id...
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Elding's research team
May 17, 2019
MANY NEW INDIVIDUALS
We've been quite lucky with many sightings of humpback whales this May and so far we've been able to identify them as 15 different...
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