İzzet Noyan YILMAZ, Mehmet Arda TONAY, Melike İdil ÖZ, Bayram ÖZTÜRK, Ayaka Amaha ÖZTÜRK, Halim Aytekin ERGÜL

Sightings of cetaceans in the Western Antarctic Peninsula during the first joint Turkish Ukrainian Antarctic Research Expedition, 2016

During the cetacean surveys of the first Turkish Ukrainian Antarctic Research Expedition conducted on 5 8 April 2016 inLemaire Channel, Penola Strait, Flanders Bay, southern Gerlache Strait, and southern Neumayer Channel in the Western AntarcticPeninsula, 74 humpback whales ( Megaptera novaeangliae ) in 24 sightings and 11 Antarctic minke whales ( Balaenoptera bonaerensis) in 6 sightings were recorded. The overall encounter rate (number of sightings/survey effort in nautical miles) was 0.333 (0.266 forhumpback whale, 0.066 for Antarctic minke whale). According to the sighting distribution, the Lemaire Channel and Penola Strait areimportant migration and feeding habitats for whales. Five humpback whales were photo-identified individually by natural features ontheir flukes; one of them had a match in the Antarctic Humpback Whale Catalogue. The matched individual was first recorded on 30August 2007 at Salinas, Ecuador.

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