Predicting the displacement of common scoter Melanitta nigra from benthic feeding areas due to offshore windfarms (COWRIE - BEN - 03 - 2002)
Contract awarded to School of Ocean Sciences, University of Wales Bangor
Project Commencement: July 2003
Project Completed: July 2005
Follow the links below for the Executive Summary and the full final report, Parts A & B.
Executive Summary PDF (58KB)
Final Report Part A (1.11MB)
Final Report Part B (2.62MB)

 

Marine Bird Survey Methodologies
Contract awarded to NIOZ (Royal Netherlands Institute for the Sea Research)
Project Commencement: August 2003
Project Completed: May 2004
Follow the links below for the final report and pre-workshop report.
Phase 1 final report & guidance document PDF (2,811KB) - May 2004
Pre-workshop report PDF (686KB) - November 2003

 

Best practice guidance for the use of remote techniques for observing bird behaviour in relation to offshore windfarms
Contract awarded to the National Environmental Research Institute (NERI) in Denmark, in collaboration with QinetiQ.
Follow the link below for the final report
Remote techniques - final report