1 Unidentified Dolphin at North Haven, NSW
Identification history
| Dolphin-unknown species | 24 Jul 2025 | MichaelBedingfield | ||
| Dolphin-unknown species | 24 Jul 2025 | Clarel | ||
| Tursiops truncatus | 22 Jul 2025 | CarbonAI | ||
| Tursiops truncatus | 22 Jul 2025 | Clarel |
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User's notes
They were fishing in the current. Swimming in tight circles, sometime upside down, the technique seemed to be to make the fish jump out of the water and then catch. A local said this is a daily occurrence at sundown. Wish I’d better captured the acrobatics.
4 comments
Clarel
wrote:
24 Jul 2025
Hi Michael, many thanks for the moderation. Past news refers to the phenomenon of the bottlenose dolphins fishing for mullet at this area, and at the time I wasn’t sure about how to specify at the genus level.
Clarel
wrote:
24 Jul 2025
When I think about it, I could tell when they were upside down because their underside was very pale. I imagine that’s a common trait so not helpful for ID’ing.
Location information
- Coordinates 152.822250-31.640250
- Altitude 5.5m
- Places North Haven, NSW
Sighting information
- 4 - 15 Abundance
- 17 Jul 2025 05:18 PM Recorded on
- Clarel Recorded by
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Collections
Clarel NatureMapr New South Wales North Coast Dolphin-unknown species Sea Mammals Mammals
Species information
- Dolphin-unknown species Scientific name
- Unidentified Dolphin Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 32m Recorded at altitude
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- More than one media file
- Verified by an expert moderator
- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
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