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Seabird Records
Seabird Recording Form
Thank you for reporting sightings of seabird species and contributing to a growing body of data.
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1.
What date and time conducted the survey?
Date / Time
Date
January
February
March
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October
November
December
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Su
Sunday
Mo
Monday
Tu
Tuesday
We
Wednesday
Th
Thursday
Fr
Friday
Sa
Saturday
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Hour
Time
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Minutes
AM/PM
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PM
2.
What is your details?
Name:
E-mail?
3.
What was the location of the site surveyed?
Location
Latitude
Longitude
4.
What species of seabird did you record?
Northern gannet
Common gull
Black-headed gull
Herring gull
Black-legged kittiwake
Yellow-legged gull
Lesser black-backed gull
Galacous gull
Little tern
Sandwich tern
Common tern
Roseate tern
Arctic tern
Black guillemot
Common guillemot
Razorbill
Atlantic puffin
Northern fulmar
European storm petrel
Manx shearwater
Sooty shearwater
Arctic Skua
Sabines gull
Great shearwater
Great cormorant
European shag
Greater black-backed gull
Other (please specify)
5.
How sure are you of the species I.D.?
Probable
Definite
Please describe the species observed and send photo's to us at orcireland@gmail.com for species confirmation.
6.
By boat: Number of adults flying around. associated with each cay (e.g. territorial behaviour, landing on, flying close to, carrying fish to etc.)- List for each species. Skip to next question if observing from land.
7.
Land based counts: contents of nest or adults flushed flying in air. Please check boxes if present and comment count number in box below question with corresponding letter.
A. Incubating adult
B. Nest with eggs
C. Nest with small chicks
D. Nest with large chicks
E. Number of flushed adults
Count numbers - A, B, C, D & E,
8.
Were there any empty or predated nests?
Yes - evidence of predation
Yes - empty
No
Please give locations of empty or predated nests.
9.
Were these sighting of birds associated with sightings of other marine megafauna?
Yes
No
Unknown
Please specify species - e.g. cetaceans- common dolphin and humpback whale, or pinnipeds - grey seal, or elasmobranch - basking shark.
10.
What kind of platform did you record from?
Whale watching tour
Angling charter boat
Ferry
Cruise ship
Land
Fishing trawler
Cargo vessel
Oil rig
Windfarm
Other (please specify)
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