A lone short-beaked common dolphin has been spotted in Akaroa Harbour.

A common dolphin was washed onto the steps below Grattan Beach in lower Salthill.

Soon after leaving the harbour, a pod of common dolphin began to ride our bow.

We assume this short-beaked common dolphin has joined this pod for protection or to find food, Mr Crosbie said.

It includes common dolphins, endangered turtles, fur seals, 600-year-old corals, and hundreds of seabirds.

The trio of common dolphins swam up the Lee's south channel shortly after lunchtime.

A pod of common dolphins has been captured on film swimming in a Cornish harbour.

For a marginal increase in profits, the trawler firms could be driving common dolphins towards regional extinction.

Short-beaked common dolphins feed on a variety of prey, including surface schooling fish species and small mid-water fish and squids.

At the end of January at least eight common dolphins have been found dead on the beaches of Achill Island, Co Mayo.

Initially the pods in the bay were observed feeding only on marine mammals, like common dolphins and the occasional Cape fur seal.

The commonest Whale of our seas is that small one, the Common Dolphin, who is a midget some five or six feet long.