🖤 First orcas as Shetland residents! 🖤 Yesterday evening the fab Shetland sightings network alerted everyone to orcas spotted in Mousa Sound.. Cue a magical evening of watching them, the sunset, and the world going by from our new home 🌅

Some personal news! RNLI 🧡

Delighted to have recently made the move north to Shetland - a place that I've come to treasure over the years. We are looking forward to becoming part of the community here, and of course, for the wildlife at every turn!

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It's finally happening!

🚨'Revised taxonomy of eastern North Pacific
killer whales (Orcinus orca): Bigg's and resident ecotypes deserve species status'🚨

Link to publication by Morin et al. 2024 ⬇️

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Quite a sight when you see a Pod of #Orca hunting. This pod, the 27's were hunting seals and harbour porpoise. ORCA Orca Survey Scotland save cetaceans The Orca Project On the Killer Whale Trail Sea Save Foundation Blue Planet Society

So priviliged to join the Hebridean Whale & Dolphin Trust research boat Silurian for their winter survey this week. So far we've seen a group of common dolphins, including a very wee dinky one! And every weather and type of season possible - hail, sun, fog, you name it 😆 Awesome so far! 💙💪🏽🐳

A sad start to 2024 with news reaching us on New Years day of this young female Orca found floating off Orkney. With the '27s' not far away and the 65s there recently, a check of all eye-patch images of calves over the last five years proved negative. x.com/strandings/sta…

Breach! Bull '34' from the 27s Northern Isles Community Orca pod getting airborne off Sumburgh Head, Shetland today. Absolutely spectacular!

Wow, amazing to see how they interact and swim along underwater 😍 Another day of wonderful sightings for Shetland, with reports off Orkney too 🐳

The matriarch of the 27s Orca pod - 'Vaila' - with her one year old calf in crystal clear seas off Quarff, Shetland this week. It was amazing to watch the calf switching echelon positions constantly as they travelled - but even more amazing was to watch the calf nursing. Special.

Had a 'Whale' of a time today, following the 27's down the East Coast of #Shetland here are some drone video stills from today.
Blue Planet Society The Marine Mammal Center ORCA The Orca Project Promote Shetland NorthLink Ferries

NorthLink Ferries are delighted to sponsor the Sanday Seal Cam again. This is a great watch during late October, November and December – when grey seals come ashore to give birth!

🦭 northlinkferries.co.uk/seals/

#Orkney #ProudSponsors #RespectProtectEnjoy #ScotlandIsCalling

An absolutely amazing encounter with the 27s Orcas today as they swam metres away from us off Laxo Pier, Shetland. Thanks to Chris Watt for filming it and sending us this 📽️ keepsake. Special. Whale & Dolphin Conservation (WDC) Blue Planet Society Marine Conservation Society VisitScotland Ullapool Sea Savers Karen Munro Karen Hall NorthLink Ferries

Really excited that the Scottish Vessel Project has a new collaborator Arran Coast💙 We will now be collecting vessel data on the Isle of Arran, in addition to other sites around Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🚢⛴️⛵️ Wanna hear more and help out? We are giving a talk this Tuesday! All welcome 🚢🌊⛴️

Just under two minutes of the 27's Pod, as they patrolled the coast of #Shetland Promote Shetland NorthLink Ferries Whale and Dolphin Conservation (WDC) Blue Planet Society ORCA The Marine Mammal Center On the Killer Whale Trail BBC Scotland BBC North East Scot Former NatureScot account Julia Sutherland

To say that we had pretty amazing views of Orcas here in Shetland yesterday is probably an understatement! Here's bull 34 from the 27s pod a few metres off the shoreline of Mousa Sound.

I'd love to send the photographer a high res keepsake.

Please retweet so we can find them!

Happy World Orca Day🐳Isn't it cool that the more we unravel about their social lives, culture, foraging habits, the more we realise how little we know. There's so much still to learn! 🥰Here's a pic from our research: google 'Predation in the Anthropocene' to read📸 Southspear Media & Surveys Ltd.

Happy World Orca Day🐳Isn't it cool that the more we unravel about their social lives, culture, foraging habits, the more we realise how little we know. There's so much still to learn! 🥰Here's a pic from our research: google 'Predation in the Anthropocene' to read📸 Southspear Media & Surveys Ltd.

Our first #OrcaActionMonth ep this June is all about the West Coast Community in Scotland. While 10 individuals total have been identified by Hebridean Whale & Dolphin Trust, only two - W01 John Coe and W08 Aquarius have been seen in recent years.
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🖌️: Emma Luck
#WhaleTales

Taking a week off to immerse myself in nature, the outdoors and to explore more of the Shetland Isles. 48 hours off the Northlink ferry NorthLink Ferries, and here are some of the incredible sights so far 🥰🌊🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🤿 Yes, this is Scotland, and it is every bit as awesome as it looks 🤗

On the Killer Whale Trail - 2023 edition 🤗🥰🌊💙 so delighted to spend a day with the 27s yesterday, made extra special by enjoying sightings with wonderful people 💙