The monitoring of breeding seabirds and eiders
Twenty-one species of seabirds breed regularly in Shetland, some of them in huge, spectacular, multi-species colonies on cliffs. The Sullom Voe Environmental Advisory Group Environmental Impact Statement (SVEAG 1976) provides a table showing the relative importance of seabird species in terms of Sco...
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crcambridgeupr:10.1017/s0269727000005984 2024-03-03T08:48:47+00:00 The monitoring of breeding seabirds and eiders Dunnet, G. M. Heubeck, M. 1995 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0269727000005984 https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0269727000005984 en eng Cambridge University Press (CUP) https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Section B. Biological Sciences volume 103, page 137-164 ISSN 0269-7270 2053-5910 General Medicine journal-article 1995 crcambridgeupr https://doi.org/10.1017/s0269727000005984 2024-02-08T08:38:32Z Twenty-one species of seabirds breed regularly in Shetland, some of them in huge, spectacular, multi-species colonies on cliffs. The Sullom Voe Environmental Advisory Group Environmental Impact Statement (SVEAG 1976) provides a table showing the relative importance of seabird species in terms of Scotland and the British Isles. We have updated these data in the light of the Seabird Colony Register (Lloyd et al. 1991) and present data for seven species, vulnerable to oil pollution, in Table 1. It is clear that these populations are of national importance and indeed several are internationally important. Separately, an estimate was provided by SVEAG of the numbers of sea ducks and divers wintering in Shetland waters and updated estimates are given by Suddaby (1992) (Table 2). Chief among these is the eider duck ( Somateria mollissima ) which is apparently resident in Shetland throughout the year (Heubeck 1993a). In its Eighth Report, on Oil Pollution at Sea, the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution (1981) recognised the vulnerability of seabirds to oil pollution and this was clearly a matter of concern in Shetland and elsewhere when the flow of enormous quantities of crude oil into Sullom Voe via undersea pipelines and out of Sullom Voe by large tankers became a reality. The risk to seabirds of oil pollution is well documented (Bourne 1968; RSPB 1979). Dunnet (1974, 1980, 1982, 1987) has reviewed the situation in relation to the North Sea oil industry. Article in Journal/Newspaper Somateria mollissima Cambridge University Press Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Section B. Biological Sciences 103 137 164 |
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Twenty-one species of seabirds breed regularly in Shetland, some of them in huge, spectacular, multi-species colonies on cliffs. The Sullom Voe Environmental Advisory Group Environmental Impact Statement (SVEAG 1976) provides a table showing the relative importance of seabird species in terms of Scotland and the British Isles. We have updated these data in the light of the Seabird Colony Register (Lloyd et al. 1991) and present data for seven species, vulnerable to oil pollution, in Table 1. It is clear that these populations are of national importance and indeed several are internationally important. Separately, an estimate was provided by SVEAG of the numbers of sea ducks and divers wintering in Shetland waters and updated estimates are given by Suddaby (1992) (Table 2). Chief among these is the eider duck ( Somateria mollissima ) which is apparently resident in Shetland throughout the year (Heubeck 1993a). In its Eighth Report, on Oil Pollution at Sea, the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution (1981) recognised the vulnerability of seabirds to oil pollution and this was clearly a matter of concern in Shetland and elsewhere when the flow of enormous quantities of crude oil into Sullom Voe via undersea pipelines and out of Sullom Voe by large tankers became a reality. The risk to seabirds of oil pollution is well documented (Bourne 1968; RSPB 1979). Dunnet (1974, 1980, 1982, 1987) has reviewed the situation in relation to the North Sea oil industry. |
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