On our shores

present On our Atlantic coast

The Dolphins

Grampus griseus
Dauphin commun à bec court
Delphinus Delphinus
Current observation
striped dolphin
Stenella coeruleoalba
Current observation
Grand dauphin
Tursiops truncated
Current observation
pilot whale
Globicephala melas
Current observation
Globicephale tropical 
Globicephala macrorhynchus
Observation rare
risso's dolphin
Grampus griseus
Occasional sighting
orca
Orcinus orca
Occasional sighting
harbor porpoise
Phocoena phocoena
Current observation
Cuvier's beaked whale
Ziphius cavirostris
Occasional sighting

Seals

gray seal
Halichoerus grypus
Occasional sighting
harbor seal
Phoca vitulina
Occasional sighting

Whales

fin whale
Balaenoptera physalus
Occasional sighting
minke whale
Balaenoptera acutorostrata
Occasional sighting
Humpback whale
Megaptera novaeangliae
Rare sighting
Sperm Whale
Physeter catodon
Occasional sighting
pygmy sperm whale
Kogia breviceps
Occasional sighting
Source: ATLAS of wild mammals of Aquitaine, TOME 3 marine mammals
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