WDC Shorewatch Sightings 2024-2025

The WDC Shorewatch programme supports volunteer citizen scientists to monitor the presence and absence of coastal cetaceans over time by conducting effort-based watches from shore at specified local sites around Scotland. Volunteers have been carrying out Shorewatches from the Scottish Dolphin Centre in Spey Bay since 2005. In 2010, the programme began expanding to wider sites around the Scottish coastline; start date and the amount of effort varies by site. *Note that effort-based Shorewatch was put on hold between mid-March 2020 and late April 2021 due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
This portion of the WDC Shorewatch Sightings dataset contains the sightings data gathered through Shorewatch between 2025-2026. It does not contain the effort data or any associated opportunistic sightings. Please view WDC Shorewatch Sightings 2010-2024 for earlier records.

For more information about the Shorewatch Programme, please visit: whales.org/shorewatch. For an up-to-date set of sightings data (more recent than annual) or for an effort-based data set, please contact [e-mail]