Seabirds at Sea Evidence Base

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Natural Resources Wales
Last updated:
14 October 2025
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Summary

GIS layers showing the abundance and distribution of seabirds in welsh waters. The datasets consists of the raw data showing observations of all seabirds and derived grids showing the density of flying and sitting species on a 3km grid scale and the survey coverage. The purpose of this data capture was to collate data from ESAS and WWT Consulting databases to produce combined database of birds recorded from surveys of Welsh waters. Other sources identified were also consulted to produce the most complete representation of the observed distribution of seabirds.

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Added to data.gov.uk
2024-12-09
Access contraints
There are no access restrictions to this data. NRW may release, publish or disseminate it freely.
Harvest GUID
NRW_DS114722
Extent
Latitude: 53.9093782° to °
Longitude: -6.04366756° to -2.09400654°
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Dataset reference date
2010-07-01 (publication)
Frequency of update
notPlanned
Responsible party
Natural Resources Wales (NRW) (owner, custodian, distributor); Wildfowl And Wetlands Trust (WWT) (originator); Joint Nature Conservancy Committee (JNCC) (originator)
ISO 19139 resource type
dataset
Metadata language
eng
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