Scottish seabird conservation action plan: vulnerability report

Footnotes

1 Working group members include representatives from The Scottish Government, NatureScot, the Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC), the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) and the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO).

2 Seabird Monitoring Programme | BTO - British Trust for Ornithology

3 Seabirds Count | JNCC - Adviser to Government on Nature Conservation

4 Sectoral Marine Plan for Offshore Wind Energy

5 Working group members include representatives from The Scottish Government, NatureScot, the Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC), the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) and the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO).

6 Scotland’s Coastal Rubbish Aerial Photography (SCRAPbook) | marine.gov.scot

7 Plastic Particles in Fulmar Stomachs in the North Sea (ospar.org), Composition and Spatial Distribution of Litter on the Seafloor (ospar.org), Abundance, Composition and Trends of Beach Litter (ospar.org)

8 State of beaches: Beachwatch report (2023) - Marine Conservation Society

9 Scottish Marine Recreation & Tourism Survey (2015)

10 Seabird Oil Sensitivity Index (SOSI) | marine.gov.scot

11 Seabird Monitoring – SOTEAG

12 Seabird Monitoring Programme | JNCC

13 Seabird Oil Sensitivity Index (SOSI) | JNCC - Adviser to Government on Nature Conservation

14 Sensitivity to collision above water was assessed generally for all activities and structures. Here we focus on exposure to collision with wind turbines

15 Sensitivity to barrier to species movement was assessed generally for all activities and structures. Here we focus on exposure to wind turbines as a barrier to species movement

16 Bradbury et al. 2017