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CBMWC @cbmwc.bsky.social · 2d

A break in the storms let us head out on the water in Cardigan Bay 🌊. Gathering BRUVS & eDNA data for our #DolphinDietDetectives project. 🐬
#NatureNetworks #MarineConservation
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CBMWC @cbmwc.bsky.social · 4d

👩‍🔬 What's the collective noun for a group of CBMWC Marine Biologists?
a. The Pod Squad 🐬
b. The Salty Scholars 🐟
c. The Gill-more Girls 🦈

Vote for your favourite below! 📝
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#collectivenoun #atlanticgreyseal #jellyfish #bottlenosedolphin #stingray #sardine #funfact #cbmwc #wtsww

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CBMWC @cbmwc.bsky.social · 5d

💡A fact for Friday💡

Did you know... 🤔 Gannets not only inflate airbags in their chests, but they also use their muscles to lock the vertebrae in their necks into place, as they dive into the water at over 60 miles per hour! 🦴

#gannet #seabird #CardiganBay #cbmwc #wildlife #livingseas

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CBMWC @cbmwc.bsky.social · 6d

🦈 These shark toys have been left on our shelves when other cuddlies have been taken home 💔 Every shark deserves a good home 🏡 Pick one up today 🛍️

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CBMWC @cbmwc.bsky.social · 6d

Take a sneak peak 👀 at the work our volunteers carry out during an all day boat survey! 🛥️
What would you want to see out at sea?🌊 Comment below 💻
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#boatsurvey #research #oceanresearch #volunteers #livingseas #marineconservation #cbmwc #wildlifetrusts #NewQuayWales #CardiganBay

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CBMWC @cbmwc.bsky.social · 9d

👀 Weekly Sightings Update 🌊

🧑‍🤝‍🧑This week our #MarineConservation volunteers carried out 28 #DolphinWatch surveys! 📝 We ran surveys between 9am-7pm due to the darker mornings 🌅 Bottlenose dolphins were spotted every day!

#citizenscience #volunteers

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CBMWC @cbmwc.bsky.social · 16d

Seabirds interacting with plastic, a frequent sight for our #MarineConservation volunteers 🐥

We regularly conduct beach cleans but our seas need your help! 🌊🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳 You could join a litter pick, take litter home with you or reduce your use of single-use plastics 🚮♻️ #GreatBritishBeachClean

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CBMWC @cbmwc.bsky.social · 16d

👀 Weekly Sightings Update 🌊 🧑‍🤝‍🧑This week our #MarineConservation volunteers carried out 36 full #DolphinWatch surveys!📝Dolphins were seen on 27 surveys and Atlantic grey seals were spotted on 14. On one of the surveys, over 80 scoter were spotted! 💙

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CBMWC @cbmwc.bsky.social · 18d

🚮 Our #MarineConservation volunteers regularly conduct beach cleans and litter picks in New Quay🏖️

🧮 Here are our litter stats for the last 6 months! #GreatBritishBeachClean

🧑‍🎨Created by volunteers Olivia and Orla 🖼

#beachcleanstats #volunteers #beachcleans

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CBMWC @cbmwc.bsky.social · 19d

✨It's the #GreatBritishBeachClean 🚮

🏖️ Our volunteers and youth forum will be conducting beach cleans over the next week to celebrate 🤩 Let us know below if you'll be out litter picking too! 🥫 🥤 🗑️

#beachclean #takeaction #volunteers #youthforum

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CBMWC @cbmwc.bsky.social · 20d

Reintroducing our #marineconservation team ✨

📜 Scroll along to learn more about the team and the work they do! 🧬
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#marineteam #marine #cbmwc #CardiganBay #marinewildlife #bottlenosedolphins #research #dolphindietdetectives #teamwork #wildlifetrusts #livingseas #NewQuayWales

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CBMWC @cbmwc.bsky.social · 21d

💡 Wisdom Wednesday 💡
Did you know Common Dolphins can reach speeds of up to 30mph when chasing prey 🐬 and or bowriding alongside boats! 🚤
That is over 3x faster than the average person can run 🏃‍♂️
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#dolphins #marinewildlife #ocean #commondolphins #marinemammals

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CBMWC @cbmwc.bsky.social · 23d

👀 Weekly Sightings Update 🌊 🧑‍🤝‍🧑This week our #MarineConservation volunteers carried out 23 full #DolphinWatch surveys as well as 3 surveys that were cut short!📝Dolphins were seen on 23 surveys and seals were spotted on 6. One notable sighting was a newborn bottlenose dolphin calf!

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CBMWC @cbmwc.bsky.social · 25d

📢 Say hello to our newest seasonal volunteers! 👋

🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Welcome to the #MarineConservation team Marketa, Meg, Libby, Henry, Zoe, Lewys and Ciarrai! 🌊💙

#newvolunteers #conservationvolunteers #podsquad

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Sarah Perry @sarahperry.bsky.social · 26d

#DolphinADay 255

📷 ©️ Sarah Perry / Sep 2025

#CardiganBay #Dolphin #CBMWC #Wales #MarineConservation #WildlifePhotography #WTSWW #MarineWildlife #Nature #Wildlife #PhotoOfTheDay #CBWildlife #MarineMammals #Photography #BottlenoseDolphin #Cetacean #WomenInSTEM #WorldDolphinDay

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Two bottlenose dolphins swimming at the surface of the water, with their dorsal fins visible above waves. A few yellow and green buoys float in the foreground.
Photo credit Sarah Perry / CBMWC
Taken aboard Dolphin Survey Boat Trips during an CBMWC / WTSWW marine mammal research survey.

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CBMWC @cbmwc.bsky.social · 26d

🐬🎉 It's World Dolphin Day 🎉🐬
World Dolphin Day highlights the importance of protecting dolphins and helps raise awareness about threats that these animals face.
Why not share this post and help to continue spreading awareness. 📲

#worlddolphinday #commondolphins #bottlenosedolphins #dolphins

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Sarah Perry @sarahperry.bsky.social · 27d

#DolphinADay 253

📷 ©️ Sarah Perry / Aug 2025

#CardiganBay #Dolphin #CBMWC #Wales #MarineConservation #WildlifePhotography #WTSWW #MarineWildlife #MarineLife #Nature #Wildlife #PhotoOfTheDay #CBWildlife #MarineMammals #Photography #BottlenoseDolphin #Cetacean #WomenInSTEM

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Four bottlenose dolphins visible in the photograph. One young dolphins head is above the surface of the water, it’s eye open as it moves through the waves. Whilst the dorsal fins of three other dolphins are visible, one with a well marked fin including scarring on the leading edge.
Photo taken in Cardigan Bay.
Photo credit Sarah Perry / CBMWC
Taken aboard Dolphin Survey Boat Trips during an CBMWC / WTSWW marine mammal research survey.

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Sarah Perry @sarahperry.bsky.social · 28d

#DolphinADay 252

📷 ©️ Sarah Perry / Aug 2025

#CardiganBay #Dolphin #CBMWC #Wales #MarineConservation #WildlifePhotography #WTSWW #MarineWildlife #MarineLife #Nature #Wildlife #PhotoOfTheDay #CBWildlife #MarineMammals #Photography #BottlenoseDolphin #Cetacean #WomenInSTEM

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A Bottlenose dolphin at the surface, water drops all around creating a rainbow like effect as it moves at speed through the waves. Photograph taken in Cardigan Bay aboard Dolphin Survey Boat Trips during an CBMWC / WTSWW marine mammal research survey.
Photo Credit Sarah Perry / CBMWC.

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Sarah Perry @sarahperry.bsky.social · 29d

#DolphinADay 251

📷 ©️ Sarah Perry / Aug 2025

#CardiganBay #Porpoise #CBMWC #Wales #MarineConservation #WildlifePhotography #WTSWW #MarineWildlife #MarineLife #Nature #Wildlife #PhotoOfTheDay #CBWildlife #MarineMammals #Photography #HarbourPorpoise #Cetacean #WomenInSTEM

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A harbour porpoise at the surface of a blue sea in Cardigan Bay, its body and dorsal fin visible above a calm sea. The horizon is visible in the distance.
Photo credit Sarah Perry / CBMWC.
Taken aboard Dolphin Survey Boat Trips during an CBMWC / WTSWW marine mammal research survey.

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Sarah Perry @sarahperry.bsky.social · Sep 7

#DolphinADay 250

📷 ©️ Sarah Perry / Aug 2025

#CardiganBay #Dolphin #CBMWC #Wales #MarineConservation #WildlifePhotography #WTSWW #MarineWildlife #MarineLife #Nature #Wildlife #PhotoOfTheDay #CBWildlife #MarineMammals #Photography #BottlenoseDolphin #Cetacean #WomenInSTEM

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A bottlenose dolphin surfacing beside a boat, with a net used to collect dolphin poo as part of CBMWC’s research visible in the foreground.
Photo credit Sarah Perry / CBMWC
Taken aboard Dolphin Survey Boat Trips during an CBMWC / WTSWW marine mammal research survey.

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Sarah Perry @sarahperry.bsky.social · Sep 6

#DolphinADay 249

📷 ©️ Sarah Perry / Aug 2025

#CardiganBay #Dolphin #CBMWC #Wales #MarineConservation #WildlifePhotography #WTSWW #MarineWildlife #MarineLife #Nature #Wildlife #PhotoOfTheDay #CBWildlife #MarineMammals #Photography #BottlenoseDolphin #Cetacean #WomenInSTEM

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Two bottlenose dolphins surfacing next to each other in Cardigan Bay, both dolphins heads are visible as well as their dorsal fins at the surface. The far one has a white mark on the tip and leading edge of the dorsal fin. The sun is glistening off the water that runs down the sides of the dolphins.
Photo credit Sarah Perry / CBMWC.
Taken aboard Dolphin Survey Boat Trips during an CBMWC / WTSWW marine mammal research survey.

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Sarah Perry @sarahperry.bsky.social · Sep 5

#DolphinADay 248

📷 ©️ Sarah Perry / Aug 2025

#CardiganBay #Dolphin #CBMWC #Wales #MarineConservation #WildlifePhotography #WTSWW #MarineWildlife #MarineLife #Nature #Wildlife #PhotoOfTheDay #CBWildlife #MarineMammals #Photography #BottlenoseDolphin #Cetacean #WomenInSTEM

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Three bottlenose dolphins in Cardigan Bay, a young g dolphin in the foreground just at the surface, vapour visible as it breathes out through it’s blowhole. Two adult dolphins in the background, one’s dorsal fin in shot, the others head is just visible at the surface.
Photo credit Sarah Perry / CBMWC
Taken aboard Dolphin Survey Boat Trips during an CBMWC / WTSWW marine mammal research survey.

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Sarah Perry @sarahperry.bsky.social · Sep 4

#DolphinADay 247

📷 ©️ Sarah Perry / Aug 2025

#CardiganBay #Dolphin #CBMWC #Wales #MarineConservation #WildlifePhotography #WTSWW #MarineWildlife #MarineLife #Nature #Wildlife #PhotoOfTheDay #CBWildlife #MarineMammals #Photography #BottlenoseDolphin #Cetacean #WomenInSTEM

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A bottlenose dolphin leaping through the air in Cardigan Bay! The dolphins dorsal fin is well marked and it has skin pigmentation marks over its head.
Photo credit Sarah Perry / CBMWC.
Taken aboard Dolphin Survey Boat Trips during an CBMWC / WTSWW marine mammal research survey.

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CBMWC @cbmwc.bsky.social · 29d

This week we're training our new seasonal volunteers! 🐬 Training sessions will include marine species ID 🐧, survey methods 📝, data entry 💻 visitor engagement and more! 🤩

#volunteertraining #volunteerinduction #citizenscience

CBMWC @cbmwc.bsky.social · Sep 7

👀 Weekly Sightings Update 🌊 🧑‍🤝‍🧑This week our #MarineConservation volunteers carried out 35 #DolphinWatch surveys! 📝Dolphins were seen on 31 surveys! Our volunteers also spotted Atlantic grey seals on 6 of the surveys.

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