Research news and updates

If you’ve been onboard Elding’s tours or followed our blog you know that our research team does its best to identify every whale and...

One of the species we often encounter on our tours is the humpback whale. These beautiful whales show a great diversity of behaviours and...

Besides the fun of an Icelandic adventure out on the water, most people who come on a whale-watching tour have one obvious goal in mind:...

With the arrival of capelin, we have been seeing a rich diversity and abundance of cetaceans in Faxaflói over the past couple of weeks....

The minke whale (Balaenoptera acutorostrata) is one of the most abundant baleen whales in the world, and yet due to their shy nature and...

Photo credit: Megan Whittaker and Dorota Chrostek Days are getting shorter, the air is getting colder, and the sea is getting wilder....

The humpback whales we see in Faxaflói are generally solitary: they come here to feed, and socialising is not very high on their agenda -...

One of the easiest species to identify is the Humpback whale. With their unique fluke patterns, they are often easily identifiable from...

On our whale watching tour on Sunday, September 6th, we had the chance to witness a behaviour that is still unclear to researchers and...

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...

Summer time is a wonderful period to observe nature in its maximum splendour. At Elding, we are 'the whale watching pioneers' in...

When is the best time of the year to see whales? Well, research gives us an idea, but in the end it is up to the whales, living freely in...

Recently we finished our contest “Name a Whale Day 2020”, where we were looking for ideas how to name three humpback whales. The winners...

When is the best time to see whales? This is a frequently asked question done by our passengers when they are coming on board....

New additions to our humpback whale catalogue were added on 25 February 2020. They were the first two humpback whales of the year and...

"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,...

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...

Minke whales were our most frequently sighted species in the summer of 2019. By using the simple, non-invasive method of...

Orcas / killer whales are toothed whales that actually belong in the oceanic dolphin family. The species is not too common in the...

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...