How to watch Basking Sharks | Ireland's Wildlife
2024年5月13日 · Although there are always early and late sightings, basking shark season in Ireland starts in April and runs through to late July / early August, typically peaking from mid May to mid June, with fantastic opportunities to spot sharks …
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The Irish Basking Shark Group is promoting sustainable research, education, and conservation of Ireland's marine wildlife.
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The Irish word for basking shark is Ainmhí Sheoil – the beast with the sail – and there is also a place name on the south side of the Great Blasket Island where shoals congregate called Gleann na bPéist (Valley or Glen of the Sea Serpent).
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2024年2月23日 · If you’d like to learn more about basking sharks and cetaceans in Irish waters and how to observe, identify and record them, you might be interested in the IWDG’s Residential Weekend Whale (& basking shark) Watching weekend course at CECAS in …
Circles in the sea: the mystery of basking sharks
2023年5月20日 · At this time of year basking sharks are first reported off Ireland’s coasts. They feed on plankton, following blooms of the tiny critters into warm summer waters. Second only in size to the...
Basking Sharks Have Another Reason To Love Ireland - Forbes
2022年10月7日 · New regulations have been introduced in the Republic of Ireland, making it an offense to hunt or injure a basking shark (without permission or licence granted by the Department of...
Biology | The Irish Basking Shark Group
It is now most commonly referred to as the basking shark (An Liamhán Gréine). The basking shark was first documented in the northeastern Atlantic in the mid- to late 1700s by naturalists including J.E. Gunnerus (bishop of Trondheim) and Thomas Pennant (author of …