COWRIE is pleased to announce the release of the above report prepared by the
British Trust for Ornithology.

Offshore windfarms are likely to become one of Europe's most extensive
technical interventions in marine habitats. European inshore coastal and
offshore marine waters support globally significant numbers of seabirds and the
UK Government has legal obligations to monitor the effects coastal developments
will have on populations of these species.

Although conventional impact assessments allow estimates of the number of
birds that might collide with or be displaced by windfarms, such methods do not
allow the overall effect on bird populations to be established. This report
determines whether sufficient demographic information is available to carry out
population viability analysis: one method of determining the impacts of offshore
windfarms on bird populations.

The report can be downloaded here