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A Fantastic Season and a Farewell to the Scottish Dolphin Centre’s Residential Volunteers

There be a mutiny at Spey Bay this Sunday on Pirate Day!

With the end of the six weeks holidays coming near here at the Scottish Dolphin Centre we will be celebrating in style! Over the past few weeks we have been seeing lots of dolphin activity with pod sizes ranging from just two individuals to twelve! The ospreys who will be preparing for their long migration…

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HAPPY 4TH OF JULY!

The 4th of July is a celebration of America’s Independence from the English CROWN.  In 1776, several PATRIOTs gathered together in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to write the Declaration of Independence.  It lays out the reasons why independence was so important to the colonies; the most essential being the inalienable right to life, LIBERTY, and the pursuit…

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WDC Shorewatch – Big Watch Weekend

  WDC Shorewatch is a trained network of volunteers who conduct shorewatches to monitor the presence and absence of cetaceans around the Scottish Coast.  WDC Shorewatch hold a bi-annual event called Big Watch Weekend. This calls on all our shorewatchers around the Scottish Coast to get out and conduct as many watches as possible during…

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WDC Wild Dolphins trail is launched

Aberdeen’s eagerly awaited Wild Dolphins will make their official first appearance all over the city today (Monday 23), when the major WDC tourism project is launched. Around 50 life-sized, fibreglass sculptures of bottlenose dolphins – usually spotted off the North-east coast – will be popping up all over Aberdeen to form a trail for local…

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Shorewatch’s Big Watch Weekend at the Scottish Dolphin Centre

Here at the Scottish Dolphin Centre we are putting together the final arrangements for our Shorewatch programme’s annual Big Watch Weekend. A weekend where all our volunteers pull together to conduct as many Shorewatches as possible! This data will give us an in-depth look at what the whales and dolphins are doing around the Scottish…

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