Fly With Bull Rays - FWBR

🇨🇿 Maran Býčí (vpředu) je ohrožený druh rejnoka, o jehož ochranu se zavázalo mnoho asociací včetně projektu Fly With Bull Rays - FWBR - mimo jiné jim můžete poslad svoje fotky, pro identifikaci jedotlivých maranů býčích - ti totiž mají unikátní pruhový vzor na zádech, podle kterého lze každého jedince přesně identifikovat. I Maran deskozubý (vzradu), někdy nazývaný Siba deskozubá je dalších ohroženým druhem rejnoka vyskytujícím se na Tenerife.

🇬🇧 The Bull Ray (in the front) is an endangered species of rays, which many associations have pledged to protect, including the Fly With Bull Rays - FWBR project - among other things, you can send them your photos to identify the bull rays - they have a unique stripe pattern on their backs, according to which each individual can be accurately identified. Even the Common Eagle Ray (in the back) is another endangered species of rays found in Tenerife.

Our new Fly with Bull Rays Research Team T-shirts have arrived! Please enjoy these photos of our very happy interns sporting the new look! 😂
P.S. thanks to everyone for coming down to the Aquarium today to help out with our Elasmobranch information booth!🤗

Look at this beauty! Captured by one of our interns yesterday. This is definitely the largest Bull ray we have found in the Med 😇 how exciting!

Our interns have been going on free diving surveys nearly everyday this summer! They’ve encountered bunch of previously logged bull rays and met some new ones too! 😝
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It’s always so exciting when our Interns find a bull ray!!
Have you seen ever seen one?

🐣 Meet the FWBR Interns 🐣

Bonjooooour everyone !

My name is Geraldine and I am from Belgium. I am marine biologist and I graduated from my master in marine and lacustrine science en management in October 2021.

My 3 fin-teresting facts are:

- My favorite shark is the whale shark. I have volunteered with the NGO in 2014 and this is when I fell in love with sharks 🦈

- My name is actually really Geraldine even though most of my colleague interns here at didn’t believe me because they had named a shark Geraldine at the lab for dissection. When I just arrived and went to the lab for the first time, a colleague said he was about to take Geraldine’s brain out…. 🤯

- I should really buy a new mask because everywhere I go diving, people keep telling me I look super angry under water 🤿 Let me know if you agree 😂

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FWBR aims to contribute to understanding this critically endangered (Globally and in the Mediterranean) species through a citizen science photo-identification project --> When you come across a ray snap a picture of it's dorsal pattern and upload it to mantamatcher.org.
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Always looking for dive companies and volunteers world-wide to collaborate. If interested get in touch!
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🦐 Meet the FWBR Interns 🦐

Hi there. My name is Charlotte and I am currently studying Marine biology at the University of St Andrews. I am an intern at Shark-lab Malta until June 2022 and so far I am loving it.

My 3 fin-teresting facts are:
- My favourite shark is the thresher shark. Mainly cause they always look a bit worried which I relate to.

- I really don't trust dolphins, they just seem like they're up to something

- Completly unironically Jaws is one of my favourite films, as it's what sparked my interest and love of sharks

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FWBR aims to contribute to understanding this critically endangered (Globally and in the Mediterranean) species through a citizen science photo-identification project --> When you come across a ray snap a picture of it's dorsal pattern and upload it to mantamatcher.org.
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Always looking for dive companies and volunteers world-wide to collaborate. If interested get in touch!
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HAPPY EARTH DAY from all of us and

In honour of today, we want to share some of our favourite pictures of a BullRay from the last time we saw one!

As the weather gets warmer, we are hoping these amazing creatures will once again appear on our surveys…we can’t wait to share it with you!
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FWBR aims to contribute to understanding this critically endangered (Globally and in the Mediterranean) species through a citizen science photo-identification project --> When you come across a ray snap a picture of it's dorsal pattern and upload it to mantamatcher.org.
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Always looking for dive companies and volunteers world-wide to collaborate. If interested get in touch!
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Happy Earth Day❤️🧡💛💚💙💜 One Planet..... To Respect To Protect To Love

Among Fins Citizen science has allowed shark researchers around the world to increase their ability to collect data on these otherwise elusive animals. This short docum...

Coming soon! A sharky documentary created by Mr. Victor Bach Muñoz illustrating the use of citizen science in elasmobranch research.

In his words "I hope this documentary and website will increase visibility for shark and ray researchers seeking citizen participants/volunteers/observers"

We love the effort and think this initiative is great. We're staying tuned in for the 28th of October!

Premiering one week from today- Among Fins! This documentary by Victor Bach illustrates the utility of citizen science in shark research as a mean to support research while also engaging non-scientists into the field of science. This documentary will be available for viewing on our YouTube and IGTV- so be sure to mark your calendars for October 28th!

{photos by Victor Bach Muñoz}

It's great to be getting sightings sent over to us!