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Common Bottlenose Dolphin (Tursiops truncatus)Observer
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Coastal bottlenose dolphins near Recife
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Pantropical Spotted Dolphin (Stenella attenuata)Observer
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Last night at sea
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Brown Noddy (Anous stolidus)Observer
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Nigel the noddy visited us to roost for several nights as we got closer to Brazil.
Awaiting photographs
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Blue Button (Porpita porpita)Observer
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Caught in our daily manta trawl. Photo through the dissecting mircoscope
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By-the-wind Sailor (Velella velella)Observer
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Caught in one of our daily manta trawls
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Genus GlossobiusObserver
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Removed from a flying fish during dissection
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Flying Squids (Family Ommastrephidae)Observer
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Discovered one morning on the bow
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Cory's Shearwater (Calonectris diomedea)Observer
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The vast majority of birds sighted were Cory's shearwaters.
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Clymene Dolphin (Stenella clymene)Observer
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Large group of dolphins, thought I saw some long-snouted spinners but mostly short-snouted/Clymene in photos
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Common Reed Warbler (Acrocephalus scirpaceus)Observer
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Another terrestrial offshore visitor
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Genus PolyspilotaObserver
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Showed up on board shortly after the great offshore insect invasion
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Common Mola (Mola mola)Observer
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Stayed at surface around boat for approx 20 minutes.
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Northern Gannet (Morus bassanus)Observer
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One of about 100 diving near feeding fin whales