Whale and Dolphin Conservation

Report a whale or dolphin sighting

Use the online form below to report a whale or dolphin sightings. Multiple sightings can also be submitted using the spreadsheet. Your sightings report will be added to the National Sightings and Strandings database.

Fields marked by an asterisk * are compulsory.

Contact information
First Name *	Last Name *
Organisation
Postal address
Suburb-town	Postcode
Telephone	Email

Location and Time
Animals seen from *	-- Select -- Land Vessel Air Oil Platform
General description of your location *
Date and Time *	1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th 11th 12th 13th 14th 15th 16th 17th 18h 19th 20th 21st 22nd 23rd 24th 25th 26th 27th 28th 29th 30th 31st   January February March April May June Jul August September October November December   year    time am pm
Latitude	degrees  minutes  south/north southnorth
Longitude	degrees  minutes  east/west eastwest
Your Activity

Sightings details
Species name *	----- Whales ---- Andrew's Beaked Whale Antarctic Minke Whale, Dark-shoulder Minke Whale Arnoux's Beaked Whale Blainville's Beaked Whale, Dense-beaked Whale Blue Whale Bryde's Whale Cuvier's Beaked Whale, Goose-beaked Whale Dwarf Sperm Whale False Killer Whale Fin Whale Gingko Beaked Whale, Gingko-toothed Whale, Gingko Beaked Whale Gray's Beaked Whale, Scamperdown Whale Hector's Beaked Whale Humpback Whale Killer Whale Long-finned Pilot Whale Long-finned Pilot Whale Longman's Beaked Whale Melon-headed Whale Minke Whale Pygmy Killer Whale Pygmy Right Whale Pygmy Sperm Whale Sei Whale Short-finned Pilot Whale Southern Bottlenose Whale Southern Right Whale Sperm Whale Strap-toothed Beaked Whale, Strap-toothed Whale, Layard's Beaked Whale Tasman Beaked Whale True's Beaked Whale Unknown Baleen Whale Unknown Beaked whale Unknown Pilot Whale ----- Dolphins ---- Bottlenose Dolphin Bottlenose Dolphin sp. Common Dolphin Dolphin sp. Dusky Dolphin Fraser's Dolphin Hourglass Dolphin Indo-Pacific Humpback Dolphin Irrawaddy Dolphin Long-snouted Spinner Dolphin Risso's Dolphin Rough-toothed Dolphin Southern Right Whale Dolphin Spectacled Dolphin Spotted Dolphin Striped Dolphin
Identification confidence *	-- Select -- Very sure Sure Not sure
Best estimate group size *
Description of sighting and animal behaviour i.e. Small pod of animals with calves, breeching, bow riding, feeding etc.
Other animals present i.e. birds, fish etc.
Photos I accept the terms and conditions
Browse and select up to three photos that will be submitted with this sighting. Filetypes of jpg, gif, png or jpeg will be accepted.

Weather and Sea Conditions

Sea state -- Select -- 0 - mirror calm 1 - slight ripples 2- small wavelets 3 - larger wavelets, crests begin to break, some whitecaps 4 - longer waves, many whitecaps 5 - moderate waves 6 - large waves, whitecaps everywhere 7+ - breaking waves, whitefoam everywhere

Cloud cover -- Select -- clear sky scattered clouds broken clouds overcast

Overall Visibility -- Select -- excellent good poor

Other Notes any additional information

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