Seabird Foraging and Population Counts

Seabird foraging and population counts (Seabird Monitoring Programme) developed to be used with SMMNR GIS models. The seabird foraging dataset was derived using Welsh seabird colony data (locational and seabird counts) from the Seabird Monitoring Programme (SMP) and the revised mean max foraging ranges of seabirds (Woodward et al., 2019). Each of these core datasets were assessed as high confidence (see ABPmer, 2020, Appendix C); hence, high confidence was assigned to the derived seabird foraging dataset.

‘Data were provided by the Seabird Monitoring Programme, a Scheme funded jointly by the British Trust for Ornithology and Joint Nature Conservation Committee, in association with the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, with fieldwork conducted by both non-professional and professional surveyors.’

ABPmer, (2020). Sustainable Management of Marine Natural Resources: Ecological Constraints and Opportunities, ABPmer Report No. R.3527. A report produced by ABPmer for Welsh Government, November 2020.

Woodward et al. (2019) Desk-based revision of seabird foraging ranges used for HRA screening. BTO Research Report 724.

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Attributes (15)

Attribute name	Label	Description
geom
nythfa	Nythfa
colony	Colony
easting
northing
rhywogaeth	Rhywogaeth
species	Species
year_of_count	Year of Count
count	Count
qualifier_for_count
mean_foraging_range_thaxter	Mean Foraging Range (Thaxter)
updated_mean_foraging_range_2020	Mean Foraging Range (Updated 2020)
weighting_bocc
note
loafing