Lagenorhynchus albirostris

Robbie, a male White-beaked Dolphin, at SOS Dolfjin in September 2011. Sadly, he died few time later.

Nice one Merintia - thanks for sharing it.

Thank you!

Nice picture. Love it

Thanks! Was great to have the chance to see a so rare species, but sad too, considering the situation of that poor dolphin.

Wow I think this is the first photo I've seen of this animal on here! Thank you for this. It's always super exciting to see a new Cetacean species for me! I visited Harderwijk in July of 2010, so about a year too early. And yes unfortunate situation for that animal.

@Giant Eland Is the same for me, Cetaceans are my favourite animals, and any new species I can see is a very special moment. I was very lucky to see this dolphin, I spent a lot of time looking at him.

Very cool! Curious, what's the total list of Cetacean species you've seen/photographed?

Let me think, I have seen:
Fin Whale
Gray Whale (only pictures from far away)
Orca
Beluga
Short-finned Pilot Whale
Long-finned Pilot Whale
Harbour Porpoise
Bottlenose Dolphin
Short-beaked Common Dolphin (but no pictures)
White-beaked Dolphin
Amazon River Dolphin
And a Bottlenose-Common Dolphin hybrid.
Supposedly, I also have seen some Stripped Dolphins during a whale watching trip, but they were so far away that I was unable to identify them, so don´t count for me XD

Ah you've got 2 species I've never seen! (White-beaked of course and Long-finned Pilot Whale).

I've made a special effort to see as many different species as possible- including going whale/dolphin watching a total of 17 times in 5 different countries and 5 different US states- including 8 years in a row from 2008-2015!

Here's my list: W indicates seen in wild only, W/C indicates seen both in wild and captivity.

1.) (Balaenoptera acutorostrata) northern minke whale- W

2.) (Balaenoptera musculus) blue whale- W

3.) (Balaenoptera physalus) fin whale- W

4.) (Eschrichtius robustus) gray whale- C

5.) (Megaptera novaeangliae) humpback whale- W

6.) (Physeter macrocephalus) sperm whale- W

7.) (Phocoena phocoena) harbour porpoise- W/C

8.) (Neophocaena phocaenoides) finless porpoise- C

9.) (Inia geoffrensis) Amazon river dolphin- C

10.) (Delphinapterus leucas) beluga whale- C

11.) (Globicephala macrorhynchus) Short-finned Pilot Whale- C

12.) (Orcinus orca) killer whale- C

13.) (Pseudorca crassidens) False Killer Whale- C

14.) (Orcaella brevirostris) Irrawaddy dolphin- C

15.) (Grampus griseus) Risso’s Dolphin- C

16.) (Cephalorhynchus commersonii) Commerson's Dolphin- C

17.) (Cephalorhynchus hectori) Hector's dolphin- W

18.) (Delphinus capensis) long-beaked common dolphin- C

19.) (Delphinus delphis) short-beaked common dolphin- W/C

20.) (Lagenorhynchus australis) Peale’s dolphin- W

21.) (Lagenorhynchus obliquidens) Pacific White-sided Dolphin- C

22.) (Lagenorhynchus obscurus) dusky dolphin- W

23.) (Sousa chinensis) Indo-Pacific humpback dolphin- C

24.) (Stenella attenuata) Pantropical Spotted Dolphin- W/C

25.) (Stenella frontalis) Atlantic Spotted Dolphin- C

26.) (Stenella longirostris) Spinner Dolphin- W/C

27.) (Steno bredanensis) Rough-toothed Dolphin- C

28.) (Tursiops aduncus) Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin- W/C

29.) (Tursiops truncatus) Atlantic Bottlenose Dolphin- W/C

I've had a couple of near misses as well including finding out many years later that Mote Aquarium in Sarasota, Florida had held a Pygmy Sperm Whale (for almost 2 years I believe) during a time I had been in that area of Florida. Also on my recent trip to Asia had I added an extra day in Japan (time was pretty tight as it was) I could've attempted to visit Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium to see the Pygmy Killer Whale they supposedly have. Still very much hope to see a Beaked Whale someday!