1bdd066c559646a7b4840825b6c69546 eng series ABP Marine Environmental Research 02380711840 Quayside Suite, Medina Chambers, Town Quay Southampton SO14 2AQ United Kingdom enquiries@abpmer.co.uk http://www.abpmer.co.uk pointOfContact 2015-02-02 MEDIN Discovery Profile 2.3.8 EPSG::4326 2012, NRP, Costa Head, Marine Wildlife Survey 2013-01 publication A2455-CHWFL The marine wildlife survey programme is being undertaken by Natural Research (Projects) Ltd and is designed to provide baseline characterisation data on seabirds, marine mammals and basking sharks occurring in the development search area and a surrounding buffer. This information will help inform the assessment of potential ecological impacts caused by the development on these taxonomic groups (i.e., EIA and HRA) that will be presented in the Environmental Statement for the project and inform any operational monitoring requirements. Survey work commenced in late March 2012 and this interim report covers survey work up to August 2012. This report covers the results of the visual boat‐based surveys undertaken at approximately monthly intervals. Passive Acoustic Monitoring surveys (PAMS) undertaken at the same time is the subject of a separate report (Wittich and Gordon 2012) which accompanies this report. SSE Renewables +44 (0)141 226 8916 1 Waterloo St Glasgow G2 6AY United Kingdom kirstanne.mcdowall@sse.com gogreen@sse.com http://www.sserenewables.com originator Crown Estate Scotland 0131 260 6070 Quartermile Two, 2nd Floor, 2 Lister Square Edinburgh EH3 9GL enquiries@crownestatescotland.com custodian notPlanned Offshore area of search The Crown Estate Renewable Energy Development Areas 2012-05-15 revision 1 Marine Environmental Data and Information Network Marine Environmental Data and Information Network Bird counts Bird taxonomy-related abundance per unit area of surface Cetacean abundance SeaDataNet Parameter Discovery Vocabulary 2014-10-09 revision 86 http://www.marinedataexchange.co.uk/pages/terms-of-use.aspx license license http://www.marinedataexchange.co.uk/pages/terms-of-use.aspx eng biota environment -3.3330 -3.2179 59.1841 59.2458 2012-03 2012-08 documents inapplicable https://www.marinedataexchange.co.uk/details/CES-84/summary A link to the web service or dataset. https://www.marinedataexchange.co.uk A link to the general host site. series The survey design and survey methods was the subject of a standalone report (NRP 2012) issued to SNH and MS for comment. Feedback on the methodology was received on 30th July 2012 and was discussed at the post scoping review meeting on 5th September 2012.