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A dolphin named 'Puzzle'!
There are over 30,000 white-beaked dolphins in and around Icelandic waters and they are resident here. This means they stay in the same...
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Research news and updates
Elding's research team
- Jan 8, 2020
Minke whale abundance: March-August 2019
Minke whales were our most frequently sighted species in the summer of 2019. By using the simple, non-invasive method of...
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Elding's research team
- Dec 20, 2019
MALE ORCA RE-SIGTHED IN ICELAND
Orcas / killer whales are toothed whales that actually belong in the oceanic dolphin family. The species is not too common in the...
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Elding's research team
- Nov 11, 2019
Insight to our minke whale research
A little insight on what we are working on with our Minke whales… Currently we are working together with our MSc student Eline from the...
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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
- Jul 27, 2019
FOLLOWING OUR TAGGED WHALES
Since our tagging expeditions earlier this month in collaboration and under the expert leadership of Marine Biologist Jacob Levenson, we...
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Elding's research team
- Jul 19, 2019
GROWING OUR RESEARCH PROGRAM
We have been collecting data on the diversity, distribution, abundance and site fidelity of minke whales and humpback whales in the...
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Elding's research team
- Jul 15, 2019
White-beaked dolphins
White-beaked dolphins have been a focus species of our research since 2007, just like the humpback whales and minke whales. We mainly...
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Elding's research team
- Jun 28, 2019
RIGHT WHALE RE-SIGHTED IN FRANCE
On 23 July 2018, for the first time in Elding's history, we came up on a north atlantic right whale - one of the most endangered of all...
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Elding's research team
- Jun 19, 2019
BLUE WHALES IN THE BAY
Two blue whales were encountered from ReykjavÃk on Iceland's National Day, 17 June 2019! This is the first time in Elding's 19 year...
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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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