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Estimating the origin of seabirds seen-at-sea is an essential element of offshore wind consenting. The AppSAS project created a new tool for apportioning auk-protected species in the non-breeding season and expanded on existing methods to apportion black-backed gulls in the breeding season.
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After an extensive review of five apportioning methods, the Apportioning seabirds seen-at-sea (AppSas) project created a new tool, ), to apportion guillemots and razorbills in the non-breeding season.
In addition, the AppSAS project has expanded the Scottish Government to include GPS data for lesser black-backed gull on the breeding season.
This method derives colony-specific spatial distributions using data collected from 207 deployments in six sites between 2010 and 2020. This approach avoids the need to use more simplistic distance-decay approaches.
The tool will be published in the upcoming months.
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