Bird Studies Under Way at European Offshore Deployment Centre

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Vattenfall awards contract to Scottish ornithologists to deliver world first bird study programme

The next phase of ground-breaking environmental research at a wind farm off the Aberdeenshire coast is scheduled to start next week after Vattenfall, the Swedish energy group, appointed a Scottish specialist to carry out bird studies, it can be revealed today.   The Edinburgh-based team of RPS and Danish-based DHI Group will deploy state of the art radar-camera based digital technology. It will monitor the flight patterns and responses of gannet, kittiwake and large gulls flying during the summer breeding season through and close to the pioneering European Offshore Deployment Centre. The research, believed to be a world-first, is funded by the test and... ... More: Official Press Release Vattenfall

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