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The Moray firth is home to about 130 Bottlenose Dolphins. They are normally seen as small "bands" of six or seven animals comprising two or three females and their calves. The males tend to be solitary and are not often present.
The Moray Firth Dolphins are one of only a few known groups, in British waters. In the summer months they often frequent inshore waters where they can be easily seen, to the delight of visitor and resident alike.
Dolphin & seal information centre.
The Dolphin and Seal Centre has a magnificent view of the Moray Firth. Pick up a set of binoculars and spot one of the 130 individual animals or the many seals in the Firth. Minke Whales can sometimes be seen in the Moray Firth between August and October. The toothed whales are represented in the Moray Firth by bottlenose dolphin, white-beaked dolphin, Atlantic white-sided dolphin, common dolphin, Risso's dolphin and harbour porpoise. Of these the bottlenose dolphin and the harbour porpoise are by far the most common.
Underwater microphones (hydrophones) pick up dolphin, seal and other underwater sounds and relay them to amplifiers in the Centre. Put on a set of headphones and you can tune in to this undiscovered world.
Dolphin cruises.
Depart from Inverness harbour out onto the Moray Firth where we have the best chance of seeing the most northerly group of bottlenose dolphins in the world plus common seals, grey seals and porpoise. In the moray firth there is a lot of bird life such as terns, gannets, fulmers, razorbills, kittiwakes, red kites, ospreys, and a variety of wadding birds on the shoreline mud flats and Munlochy Bay which is the R.S.P.B. sanctuary.
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