Project Update: Bird Island- a year round cetacean observatory 

George Day has recently spent two years working as a zoological field assistant (ZFA) on Bird Island (BI). When he was not busy with other duties, he spent many hours in various locations looking for whales. After a well deserved break, George has been working in the BAS Cambridge office compiling and analysing all the BI whale observations since 1979.  During that time, eight species of whales were seen with southern right whales having the most sightings followed by humpback whales and then minke whales-which are normally not seen as much in other areas around South Georgia!

George is continuing his analysis but has written a short summary of his results so far which you can read here.