Mike Snelle
Cardigan Bay wildlife
Cardigan Bay is home to a great abundance and diversity of marine wildlife.
Throughout the year you regularly find bottlenose dolphins, harbour porpoise, Atlantic grey seals and a variety of bird life. There are also seasonal visitors to the bay which include sunfish, basking sharks and even the illusive leatherback turtle.
There are many places along the Cardigan Bay coastline and around the islands off the Pembrokeshire coast where you can find a great variety of species of seabirds, congregating to nest during the breeding season.
New Quay headland is one of these places. Here we find hundreds of razorbills and guillemots (auks) during the breeding season and their cousins the puffins nest on islands such as Skomer off the Pembrokeshire coast.
