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Metadata: 2006, ECON, Lincs Offshore Wind Farm, Inner Wash Ornithological Survey
Abstract:
The Wash is one of Europe’ s most important estuaries for birds as defined by its status as an Special Protection Area (SPA) and, in combination with the Norfolk Norfolk Coast as a Special Area of Conservation (SAC). The SAC covers ~1,078 km2 with the SPA covering around 622 km2 (c. 58% of the cSAC) broadly situated landward of a line from Gibraltar Point in Lincolnshire to Holme in North Norfolk). This is often referred to as the ‘Inner’ Wash in this document to prevent confusion with the Greater Wash Strategic Area earmarked for windfarm development. A large tidal range (6m average on spring tide) creates a large proportion of inter-tidal waters especially in the south near the mouths of the rivers Great Ouse and Nene and along the along the eastern and western flanks of the Norfolk and Lincolnshire coast respectively. The Wash forms the largest embayment in the UK and some 51% of the cSAC is thus classed as ‘sea inlet’ incorporating habitats such as tidal rivers, estuaries, mud flats and sand flats. An important habitat division is the sandbanks, which are slightly covered by water at all times (subtidal) and the mudflats and sandflats, which are exposed at low tide (intertidal). The Wash supports the second largest area of intertidal flat in the UK, which is of enormous significance to a wide range of species, especially waders and waterfowl (ducks, geese and swans), particularly in winter and on passage. The site designation reports that 400,273 individual waterfowl (5 year peak mean from 1991/2-1995/6) regularly use the area in winter. This is some 20-fold higher than the 20,000 waterfowl required for the area to meet the EC assemblage qualification as a wetland of international significance. The primary objective of the boat-based surveys of the Wash documented here was to broadly establish the summer distribution, abundance (population size and density) and activity of birds, especially breeding terns (Sandwich Sterna sandvicensis and Common terns Sterna hirundo) in relation to the proposed cable route corridor of the proposed Lincs offshore wind farm. This extends over about 40 km in total from the wind farm to the landfall point, located to the east of the mouth of the River Nene . The surveys also formed part of a wider survey programme to determine the relative use of the Wash by breeding terns, particularly Sandwich Terns, from the colonies at Scolt Head and Blakeney Point.
Data holder:
Centrica Energy
Use constraints:
http://www.marinedataexchange.co.uk/pages/terms-of-use.aspx
| Other details | ||
| Internal code | Internally assigned metadata identifier | 4473 |
| Title | The title is used to provide a brief and precise description of the dataset such as 'Date', 'Originating organisation/programme', 'Location' and 'Type of survey'. All acronyms and abbreviations should be reproduced in full. | 2006, ECON, Lincs Offshore Wind Farm, Inner Wash Ornithological Survey |
| File Identifier | The File Identifier is a code, preferably a GUID, that is globally unique and remains with the same metadata record even if the record is edited or transferred between portals or tools. | 27d373e9-41ed-4cf5-8b47-9684b5706b45 |
| Resource Identifier | This is the code assigned by the data owner. | R2/CREL/C/300312 |
| Resource type | The resource type will likely be a dataset but could also be a series (collection of datasets with a common specification) or a service. | series |
| Start date | This describes the date the resource starts. This may only be the year if month and day are not known | 2006-06-08 |
| End date | This describes the date the resource ends. This may only be the year if month and day are not known | 2006-07-26 |
| Frequency of updates | This describes the frequency with which the resource is modified or updated i.e. a monitoring programme that samples once per year has a frequency that is described as 'annually'. | notPlanned |
| Abstract | The abstract provides a clear and brief statement of the content of the resource. | The Wash is one of Europe’ s most important estuaries for birds as defined by its status as an Special Protection Area (SPA) and, in combination with the Norfolk Norfolk Coast as a Special Area of Conservation (SAC). The SAC covers ~1,078 km2 with the SPA covering around 622 km2 (c. 58% of the cSAC) broadly situated landward of a line from Gibraltar Point in Lincolnshire to Holme in North Norfolk). This is often referred to as the ‘Inner’ Wash in this document to prevent confusion with the Greater Wash Strategic Area earmarked for windfarm development. A large tidal range (6m average on spring tide) creates a large proportion of inter-tidal waters especially in the south near the mouths of the rivers Great Ouse and Nene and along the along the eastern and western flanks of the Norfolk and Lincolnshire coast respectively. The Wash forms the largest embayment in the UK and some 51% of the cSAC is thus classed as ‘sea inlet’ incorporating habitats such as tidal rivers, estuaries, mud flats and sand flats. An important habitat division is the sandbanks, which are slightly covered by water at all times (subtidal) and the mudflats and sandflats, which are exposed at low tide (intertidal). The Wash supports the second largest area of intertidal flat in the UK, which is of enormous significance to a wide range of species, especially waders and waterfowl (ducks, geese and swans), particularly in winter and on passage. The site designation reports that 400,273 individual waterfowl (5 year peak mean from 1991/2-1995/6) regularly use the area in winter. This is some 20-fold higher than the 20,000 waterfowl required for the area to meet the EC assemblage qualification as a wetland of international significance. The primary objective of the boat-based surveys of the Wash documented here was to broadly establish the summer distribution, abundance (population size and density) and activity of birds, especially breeding terns (Sandwich Sterna sandvicensis and Common terns Sterna hirundo) in relation to the proposed cable route corridor of the proposed Lincs offshore wind farm. This extends over about 40 km in total from the wind farm to the landfall point, located to the east of the mouth of the River Nene . The surveys also formed part of a wider survey programme to determine the relative use of the Wash by breeding terns, particularly Sandwich Terns, from the colonies at Scolt Head and Blakeney Point. |
| Lineage | Lineage includes the background information, history of the sources of data, data quality statements and methods. | This metadata record has been created by The Crown Estate for the purpose of publishing this data to the Marine Data Exchange |
| Related keywords | ||
| Keyword | General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Pre-Construction monitoring |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Offshore area of search | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Offshore Cable Corridor | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Bird counts | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Marine Birds | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Research | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Marine Environmental Data and Information Network | |
| Keyword title | MEDIN | |
| Keyword | General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Marine Environmental Data and Information Network |
| Keyword title | MEDIN | |
| Geographical coverage | ||
| North | The northern-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | 53.2713 |
| East | The eastern-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | 0.5238 |
| South | The southern-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | 53.1644 |
| West | The western-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | 0.4476 |
| Responsible organisations | ||
| Role | The point of contact is person or organisation with responsibility for the creation and maintenance of the metadata for the resource. | pointOfContact |
| Organisation name | The Crown Estate | |
| Phone | +44 020 7851 5000 | |
| Delivery point | 16 New Burlington Place | |
| Postal code | W1S 2HX | |
| City | London | |
| Country | United Kingdom | |
| enquiries@thecrownestate.co.uk | ||
| URL | http://www.thecrownestate.co.uk | |
| Role | The custodian is the person or organisation that accepts responsibility for the resource and ensures appropriate care and maintenance. If a dataset has been lodged with a Data Archive Centre for maintenance then this organisation is be entered here. | custodian |
| Organisation name | Centrica Energy | |
| Phone | +44 (0)1753 494 000 | |
| Fax | +44 (0)1753 494001 | |
| Delivery point | Centrica plc,, Millstream,, Maidenhead Road | |
| Postal code | SL4 5GD | |
| City | Windsor | |
| Administrative area | Berkshire | |
| Country | United Kingdom | |
| renewables@centrica.com | ||
| URL | http://www.centrica.com/ | |
| Role | The originator is the person or organisation who created, collected or produced the resource. | originator |
| Organisation name | ECON Ecological Consultancy Ltd | |
| Phone | +44 (0)1603 720 477 | |
| Delivery point | Unit 7, Octagon Buisness Park | |
| Postal code | NR13 5FH | |
| City | Little Plumstead | |
| Administrative area | Norwich | |
| Country | United Kingdom | |
| e.skeate@econ-ecology.com | ||
| URL | http://www.econ-ecology.com/ | |
| Resource locators | ||
| Locator URL | Web address (URL) that links to the resource | https://www.marinedataexchange.co.uk/details/961/summary |
| Web address (URL) that links to the resource | https://www.marinedataexchange.co.uk | |
| Dataset constraints | ||
| 20 Limitations on Public Access - Access constraints | copyright | |
| 20 Limitations on Public Access - Other constraints | This states any limitations on access to the data and uses free text. | http://www.marinedataexchange.co.uk/pages/terms-of-use.aspx |
| 21 Conditions for Access and Use - Use limitation | This states any constraints on use of the data. Multiple conditions can be recorded for different parts of the data resource. If no conditions apply, then `No condtions apply` is recorded. This uses free text. | http://www.marinedataexchange.co.uk/pages/terms-of-use.aspx |
| This states any constraints on use of the data. Multiple conditions can be recorded for different parts of the data resource. If no conditions apply, then `No condtions apply` is recorded. This uses free text. | http://www.marinedataexchange.co.uk/pages/terms-of-use.aspx | |
| Version info | ||
| Date of publication | The publication date of the resource or if previously unpublished the date that the resource was made publicly available via the MEDIN network. | 2026-04-19 |
| Harvest date | The date which this record has been (re)harvested from the provider. | 2026-04-19 |
| Metadata date | The date when the content of this metadata record was last updated. | 2015-05-08 |
| Metadata standard name | The name of the metadata standard used to create this metadata | MEDIN Discovery Profile |
| Metadata standard version | The version of the MEDIN Discovery Metadata Standard used to create the metadata record | 2.3.8 |