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EIA Database

The distribution of seabirds and marine mammals in the Atlantic Frontier, north and west of Scotland.

2000
Pay-walled Book

Report for JNCC

Pollack C. M., Mavor, R., Weir, C. R., Reid, A., White, R. W., Tasker, M. L., Webb, A. and Reid, J. B.

The marine environment of the Atlantic Frontier region north and west of Scotland, the focus of recent oil exploration, hosts internationally important concentrations of seabirds. Twenty-three...
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Keywords: Atlantic frontier, Marine mammals, Scotland, Seabirds

Vulnerability of Scottish seabirds to offshore wind turbines.

2012
Open Access Report

The Scottish Government

Furness, B. and Wade, H.

MacArthur Green has been commissioned by Marine Scotland to review the sensitivity of seabirds in Scottish waters to offshore wind farms. The aim of this guidance...
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Keywords: Offshore wind farms, Scotland, Seabirds

Effects of displacement from marine renewable development on seabirds breeding at SPAs: a proof of concept model of common guillemots breeding on the Isle of May.

2012
Open Access Report

Marine Scotland, Centre for Ecology & Hydrology

McDonald, C., Searle, K., Wanless, S. and Daunt, F.

This report presents a displacement model for adult common guillemots Uria aalge rearing chicks on the Isle of May (part of Forth Islands SPA) in relation...
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Keywords: Breeding, Model, Renewables, Seabirds, SPAs