Hebridean Whale and Dolphin Trust used a technique called passive acoustic monitoring to record the clicks.
Scottish Natural Heritage said click studies could be an additional aid to indentifying the species.
HWDT correctly identified 90% of its encounters with white-beaked dolphins and 100% of Risso's from their clicks.
SNH has also suggested that further research could be done into how clicks might identify different groups of the animals.
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