2015

New Release: Tobias Fischer & Lara Cory: ‘Animal Music – Sound & Song in the Natural World’ Gruen 121/15 Field Recordings CD (+Book) – 17 Tracks (76:57) (Strange Attractor & Gruenrekorder) http://gruenrekorder.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ca6695ec931e3164d3633b102&id=a9694889ef&e=887e6052e5 DO ANIMALS SPEAK TO EACH OTHER? WHAT DO THEIR SONGS MEAN? WILL WE EVER BE ABLE TO UNDERSTAND THEM AND TALK BACK? Ever […]

Today John called me and told me there was another Humpback whale inside the Henningsvaer harbour! We could quickly see it swimming fast in a circle around the islands between Henningsvaer and Sauøya and then it disappeared under the bridge north..the whole encounter was less than half an hour, but it was amazing to see

During our field course in Marine Mammal Biology (BI227 at UiN) with 12 students from all over the world, we were looking for the group of Orcas that has been seen in Moskenes in Lofoten during the last few days.And just as we came to Nusfjord a student discovered a large group of Orcas traveling

Finally after so many years of bloodshed the government stopped subsidizing the seal hunt in the ice. The last sealing vessel came back to Tromsø with the last kill of a bit more than 2000 seals.There is no danger for the fishermen, seals do not breed quickly, they only have one cub a year and

The group of Orca (Orcinus orca) with ca 20-30 Individuals are still in Lofoten and we could finally study them with our boat! They swam really close to shore, catching a fish every once in a while.. we know this groups since 2003 and they are used to boats and are not shy since they

During our last 2 trips we encountered different whales! First we saw a mother and calf fin whale in the middle of the Vestfjord,  they were feeding on plankton. Only once did the gentle giants come very close to our boat, had a look and went on feeding… the second largest animal on this planet

As promised here is an update on the group of 20-30 Orcas that have been seen in the south of Lofoten since end of April. They are still in the same area and can easily be seen from land (E10) between Sund and Å.Feeding spots are outside Bridges, because the water streams concentrate fish there,

Norwegian newspapers have covered our story with the dead Orca baby and raised the problem of toxins: NRK NordlandLofotpostenHvordan havnet den her? Nordlys and we are  right now filming  and being interviewed for the CarbonFix Foundation film “The Last Sanctuary”

Sad news from yesterday: we got a report of a dead Orca baby lying in the rocks close to Reine in Lofoten. We went there and found it lying in between the rocks, it was freshly stranded and probably dead only for a few days. It was a male, ca 2.5m long and well fed,

Sunday, the 3rd of May I finally saw the pod of Orcas myself, when I went with Eric Fokke to study them all day from land. First we found them along the road between Djypfjorden and Reine and we were hoping that they would start feeding under the bridge of Reine..but they did not find