Friday 15 August 2014

Dead Juvenile Common Dolphin found on Newport Beach.

News from Nick McIlvenna, of a dead male juvenile Common Dolphin stranded on Newport (Pemb's) Beach. It may just be a coincidence but Dan Worth has had several sightings of a juvenile CD associating with the Porpoises around Fishguard Bay (Pen Anglas) only a couple of miles from the beach where the dead animal was found. The dead animal according to Rod Penrose of The Welsh Strandings Agency who recovered the Dolphin was extremely emaciated. Perhaps it had lost its mother  but a lone young Common Dolphin is probably doomed without the support of its mother and associated pod...