It's the last day of #NationalMarineWeek 😭 We've been showcasing our favourite #SeaSuperheroes 🦸💙 Today we want to celebrate our amazing #LivingSeas Youth Forum & volunteers 👏👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 without you all our vital #marineconservation work wouldn't be possible! 🌎🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 WildlifeTrustSWWales 🦡🐬 Wildlife Trusts Wales

Sightings Update 10/08/2022: COMMON DOLPHINS!! 🥳🐬 Our #LivingSeas volunteers recorded a small group of common dolphins just off of the New Quay headland during todays 9am-11am survey 🐬😍 WalesOnline 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

📅 The seal pupping season is almost here 🙌👶 You may spot the white pups alone on sheltered beaches 👀🏖️ Their mum is usually in the water nearby searching for food! 🐠 ⚠️Pups are vulnerable to disturbance so stay at least 50m away⚠️ WildlifeTrustSWWales 🦡🐬 Ceredigion Council Wildlife Trusts Wales

#WackyWednesday 💙 Chitons are a type of mollusc 🐌 and are sometimes called coat of mail shells due to the 8 interlocking shell plates on their backs 🛡️ The shell is very flexible and they can roll into a ball if threatened ⚽🤩 WildlifeTrustSWWales 🦡🐬 Wildlife Trusts Wales

✨ We celebrated #MarineCleanCymru with a beach clean this afternoon🚮 👊 We collected 13.6kg of litter including 550 pieces of plastic 🤯, fishing rope and netting 🎣, dog poo bags 💩, clothing 👚 and much more! WildlifeTrustSWWales 🦡🐬 Wildlife Trusts Wales Keep Wales Tidy

#TwitchingTuesdays 🐦 More of a chocolate-brown headed gull 🍫 it's head is actually white for most of the year! ⚪ Part of its Latin name means laughing due to their ke-ke-ke' and 'kverarrr' calls 🎶 WildlifeTrustSWWales 🦡🐬 Wildlife Trusts Wales

How to tell 2 common UK sharks apart: smallspotted catshark (Left) - nasal flaps extend to mouth. Bullhuss (aka nursehound, Right) don't. Recorded 100s of both in Welsh pot fisheries Bangor University - Sustainable Fisheries Research (Bullhuss also much, much angrier)

Seals come to land to rest 😴, moult their fur 💇, mate and give birth 👶 If you spot a seal on the shore then please watch it from a distance!! 👀 ⚠️Please note this photo was taken from distance with a zoom lens and cropped 📸 WildlifeTrustSWWales 🦡🐬 Wildlife Trusts Wales

🕵️‍♀️ Our #LivingSeas team discovered this lobster carapace whilst beach cleaning 🚮 Common lobsters are a deep blue colour 🤯 When alive their red pigment is bound to a protein 🔵 Cooking a lobster breaks this bond, releasing the pigment which turns them red! 🦞 WildlifeTrustSWWales 🦡🐬 Wildlife Trusts Wales

🕵️‍♂️ It's a great time of year to find natural treasures washed up our beaches 🏖️ #LivingSeas volunteer Cody found these queen scallop shells whilst walking along New Quay Harbour Beach 👀🦪 WildlifeTrustSWWales 🦡🐬 Wildlife Trusts Wales Cody Ayre Higgins

Are you ready to dive into BBC Autumnwatch tonight?! 🐬 We're so excited for the first episode of BBC Autumnwatch tonight coming to you live from our flagship reserve Teifi Marshes!! 🦌🐬🦇 👉Tune in at 8pm tonight on BBC2 to watch! BBC Springwatch Iolo Williams #autumnwatch

Feel very honoured to be on the new 2022 BBC programme Autumnwatch 🍂 thank you CBMWC News for giving me this great opportunity! Me and my pod smashed it! 🐬❤️

Did you catch us on BBC’s AutumnWatch last night? 🍁 📺 Gillian & the team joined us on one of our #marinemammal surveys in #CardiganBay. 🌊 🚤 👀 🦭 If you missed it you can catchup on BBC iPlayer 👉 bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod… ⭐️ Tune in tonight BBC2 8pm ⭐️ BBC Springwatch

Fin-tastic news! 🐬 Thanks to the #NatureNetworksFund, our CBMWC News team have been able to capture dorsal fin photos of a number of individual dolphins and are busy analysing the images against our photo ID catalogue! Cronfa Treftadaeth y Loteri Genedlaethol #SentinelsOfTheSea 📸 Dr Sarah Perry

I’m happy to share that I’ve started a new position as a scientific researcher and educational outreach intern at CBMWC!🐬🦭🎉 This is also the cool picture I took of a seal and a Black-backed Gull 🪶🦭

Really happy to be working with CBMWC 🐬🦭

Sharks' skin is covered in tiny flat V-shaped teeth, also known as dermal denticles 🦈. Sharks have dermal denticles rather than scales because it decreases drag & turbulence. As they are top predators, they need to be able to swim faster⚡ and more quietly! 🤫 WildlifeTrustSWWales 🦡🐬 Wildlife Trusts Wales

With around 500 shark species swimming in our oceans🌊, it’s no surprise that there’s a diversity in reproduction strategies among them 🦈.  Do you know any sharks & what reproduction strategy they exhibit? Leave your comments down below👇🤔 WildlifeTrustSWWales 🦡🐬 Wildlife Trusts Wales

🐬On 06/05/2023 one of our well-known bottlenose dolphins live-stranded on Ynyslas, later died🪦 Our #MarineConservation team identified the #dolphin as no. 302 in the CBMWC catalogue, nicknamed Vader📸He was photographed and known by CBMWC for around 30 years. Wildlife Trusts Wales WildlifeTrustSWWales 🦡🐬

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