Greece · 2001—2026
Mediterranean monk seal
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8 September 2001—27 August 2026
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- South Aegean1 report
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Date: 2026Reported: Calypso Cyclades Live, citing a local witness post
Observation: A seal identified in a local witness post as Calypso was reported resting on Korissia beach, Kea, on 27 August. Cyclades Live reproduced the account and reported that MOm had been informed.
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Date: 2026Reported: Calypso MOm, reported by Ecozen
Observation: MOm reported Calypso resting on several Kythnos beaches in the days before 18 June. The rehabilitated young seal carried a satellite transmitter. This entry groups the reported visits because individual dates and beaches were not supplied.
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Date: 2026Reported: Unidentified Naxos Times
Observation: One seal was reported swimming and surfacing in Tinos harbour on the morning of 19 February. Residents and visitors recorded its appearance.
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Date:Reported: Unidentified Animal Zone International / Amorgos Diving Center
Observation: A second newborn female monk seal pup was found weak at a remote Aegiali beach and taken into care. Animal Zone later reported that she died while being transported for treatment. Kept separate from the Katapola pup.
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Date:Reported: Unidentified Animal Zone International / Litsa Passari
Observation: A newborn female monk seal pup was found at Katapola port. Local Animal Zone volunteers monitored her in the wild; the next morning she had moved away. No later outcome is known.
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Date:Reported: Fokionas MOm
Observation: A weak and dehydrated three-month-old monk seal later named Fokionas was found on Syros and transferred for rehabilitation.
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Date:Reported: Unidentified Dendrinos et al. (2008)
Observation: Researchers directly observed six pups resting or swimming in one monitored cave on the same field-survey day. This is one cave encounter, separate from the other cave recorded that day.
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Date:Reported: Unidentified Dendrinos et al. (2008)
Observation: A monk seal pup was observed swimming in a second monitored cave on Gyaros. Kept separate from the six pups recorded in another cave that day.
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Date:Reported: Victoria MOm / The Monachus Guardian
Observation: Viktoria Drouga found a newborn female monk seal pup struggling in storm waves at Kolimpithra beach. The pup was later named Victoria and taken into care.
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Date:Reported: Unidentified Bjoern Lovén / The Monachus Guardian; MOm response
Observation: At 14:30 the observer heard a noise and saw a grey monk seal swim from a cave at very close range, then recorded it swimming and cave activity. The source describes this as a separate sighting from 25 April; no distinct individual claim is made.
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Date:Reported: Unidentified Bjoern Lovén / The Monachus Guardian; MOm response
Observation: The observer reported one monk seal swimming in poor visibility during the late afternoon. The later 27 April encounter made the observer confident that this first sighting was also a seal; the two sightings are retained as separate dated encounters without inferring that they were different animals.
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Date:Reported: Unidentified Dendrinos et al. (2008)
Observation: A female monk seal was observed nursing her pup on an open beach during a field survey. The two linked Table 1 rows describe this one mother-pup encounter.
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Date:Reported: Unidentified Dendrinos et al. (2008)
Observation: A female Mediterranean monk seal pup was observed resting on an open beach during a field survey. This report describes one individual row, not the survey total.
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Date:Reported: Unidentified Panos Dendrinos / MOm, The Monachus Guardian
Observation: MOm field researchers recorded a newborn Mediterranean monk seal pup on Kimolos. The birth date was not established.