JNCC Report No. 673: Red-Throated Diver Energetics Project 2020 Field Season Report

Thompson, D.; O'Brien, S.; Ruffino, L.; Johnson, L.; Lehikoinen, P.; Okill, D.; Petersen, A.; Petersen, I.K.; Väisänen, R.; Williams, J.; Williams, S. (2020). JNCC Report No. 673: Red-Throated Diver Energetics Project 2020 Field Season Report (Report No. 09638091). Report by Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC). Report for Government of the United Kingdom.

@techreport{Thompson-2020-2084735,
author = {Thompson, D and O'Brien, S and Ruffino, L and Johnson, L and Lehikoinen, P and Okill, D and Petersen, A and Petersen, IK and Väisänen, R and Williams, J and Williams, S},
title = {JNCC Report No. 673: Red-Throated Diver Energetics Project 2020 Field Season Report},
institution = {Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC)},
year = {2020},
month = {dec},
number = {09638091},
url = {https://hub.jncc.gov.uk/assets/fef1c3be-d501-4beb-a62a-6e4382614170},
keywords = {Wind Energy, Fixed Offshore Wind, Displacement, Birds, Seabirds},
}

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TY - RPRT
TI - JNCC Report No. 673: Red-Throated Diver Energetics Project 2020 Field Season Report
AU - Thompson, D
AU - O'Brien, S
AU - Ruffino, L
AU - Johnson, L
AU - Lehikoinen, P
AU - Okill, D
AU - Petersen, A
AU - Petersen, IK
AU - Väisänen, R
AU - Williams, J
AU - Williams, S
AB - Whilst renewable energy is a vital contributor in mitigating the effects of climate change by reducing global carbon emissions, the impacts of large-scale deployment of offshore wind on marine wildlife remains unclear. Red-throated divers are sensitive to disturbance caused by offshore wind farms, which leads to displacement from their foraging areas.This report details the third field season of the Red-throated Diver Energetics Project. During 2018–2020, archival geolocator (GLS) and time depth recorder (TDR) tags were deployed and retrieved from red-throated divers breeding in Scotland, Finland and Iceland to quantify foraging behaviour and approximate non-breeding season locations.This empirical data will provide insight into the time divers spend foraging, thus providing insight into whether divers potentially have capacity to accommodate displacement effects of offshore wind development.
DA - 2020/12//
PY - 2020
SP - 9
PB - Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC)
SN - 09638091
UR - https://hub.jncc.gov.uk/assets/fef1c3be-d501-4beb-a62a-6e4382614170
LA - English
KW - Wind Energy
KW - Fixed Offshore Wind
KW - Displacement
KW - Birds
KW - Seabirds
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Abstract

Whilst renewable energy is a vital contributor in mitigating the effects of climate change by reducing global carbon emissions, the impacts of large-scale deployment of offshore wind on marine wildlife remains unclear. Red-throated divers are sensitive to disturbance caused by offshore wind farms, which leads to displacement from their foraging areas.

This report details the third field season of the Red-throated Diver Energetics Project. During 2018–2020, archival geolocator (GLS) and time depth recorder (TDR) tags were deployed and retrieved from red-throated divers breeding in Scotland, Finland and Iceland to quantify foraging behaviour and approximate non-breeding season locations.

This empirical data will provide insight into the time divers spend foraging, thus providing insight into whether divers potentially have capacity to accommodate displacement effects of offshore wind development.