ScotWind collaboration gathers digital bird data

A two-year digital aerial survey has so far documented the habits of over 75,000 birds following industry leading collaboration between ScotWind developers.

Four aircrafts flying simultaneously once a month have completed 690 hours of flight time to collect high-definition images across an 11,550km2 area in the North Sea. The data collection has been commissioned by renewables organisations who secured rights from Crown Estate Scotland to develop offshore windfarms. Fred, Olsen Seawind, Vattenfall, Scottish Power Renewables, Shell, SSE Renewables, CIP, Marubeni, Bluefloat, Renantis, bp and EnBW all co-operated to gather the important ornithological data. The survey was also fast-tracked by the partnership to ensure the information was collected across two full... ... More: Official Press Release Ossian Wind Farm

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