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Vulnerable concentrations of marine birds west of Britain 1990

Abstract

This document describes the locations of vulnerable concentrations of birds to the west of Scotland and in the Irish Sea. It forms part of the outputs of the third phase (1986–1990) of the Seabirds at Sea research programme.

The purpose of this resource is to make available to those concerned with planning and operation of marine oil and gas developments information on the distribution and timing of vulnerable concentrations of birds. The scientific analyses on which this is based are presented by Webb et al 1990. Here we attempt to summarise these detailed results in a form which will be most easily usable by the industry and related organisations.

The Seabirds at Sea programme started in 1979 and was designed primarily to determine which parts of Britain's waters were particularly important for seabirds. Tasker & Pienkowski (1987) described the vulnerability of birds in the North Sea; this document follows the same format, to describe the key areas for birds using the waters to the west of Britain. A more detailed report on the results of the third phase of the programme and several smaller reports have been published (details provided in the 'Main additional sources of information' section).

Please note that this resource has been produced from a scan of an original document. You may therefore experience fluctuations in quality.

Resource type Publication

Topic category Environment

Reference date 1990··

Citation
Tasker, M.L., Webb, A., Harrison, N.M. & Pienkowski, M.W. (1990) Vulnerable concentrations of marine birds west of Britain. JNCC, Peterborough, ISBN 0 86139 675 8.

Lineage
This resource was produced as part of the third phase (1986–1990) of the Seabirds at Sea research programme.

Responsible organisation
Communications, JNCC publisher

Limitations on public access No limitations

Use constraints Available under the Open Government Licence 3.0

Metadata date 2026·05·01

Metadata point of contact
Communications, JNCC

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