Seabird GPS tracking on the Isle of May, Fowlsheugh and St Abb’s Head in 2021 in relation to offshore wind farms in the Forth/Tay region

Bogdanova, Maria I.; Regan, Charlotte; Gunn, Carrie; Newell, Mark; Benninghaus, Ella; Langlois Lopez, Samuel; Quintin, Marine; Searle, Kate; Daunt, Francis; Wischnewski, Saskia; Cleasby, Ian; Witcutt, Emma; Kinchin-Smith, David; Holmes, Elizabeth; Fox, Derren; McCluskie, Aly; Whyte, Katherine; Butler, Adam; Jones, Esther L.

Abstract

This report presents the results of GPS tracking of adult common guillemots, razorbills, and Atlantic puffins breeding on the Isle of May, and of black-legged kittiwakes breeding on the Isle of May, St Abb’s Head and Fowlsheugh (east Scotland) in 2021, as well as an assessment of connectivity with consented and proposed offshore wind farms in the Forth/Tay region (Neart na Gaoithe, Seagreen and Berwick Bank).