Madeira · observation
Madeira archipelago (exact finding site unspecified)
· Madeira archipelago
Rosa Pires reported an injured hooded seal discovered in the Madeira archipelago. It subsequently died during rehabilitation. The archived case describes one juvenile male that stranded alive; the exact finding site is unspecified.
- Species
- Hooded seal
- Number of seals
- 1
- Attributed name
- Unidentified
- Source
- Rosa Pires, Parque Natural da Madeira, in The Monachus Guardian; Sealcentre Pieterburen archive on iNaturalist
About this record
- Supporting evidence
- https://www.monachus-guardian.org/library/mguard18.pdf — November 2006, PDF page 15, discovery date. https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/24716424 — archived case S06-1553, uploaded 2019-05-07; juvenile male, 111 cm and 31.4 kg, later death recorded 2006-08-05. No photographs. Source-attributed identification.
- Identification confidence
- Not recorded
- Editorial status
- Published by Seal Watch.
Source wording, attributed names and approximate date labels are preserved. A published report does not establish a verified animal identity.