Digital video aerial survey of birds in intertidal habitats of Wicklow: Final report January 2019 to the Marine Institute

Abstract

In winter 2018/19 Marine Institute Ireland commissioned HiDef Aerial Surveying Limited (‘HiDef’) to undertake a programme of high-resolution digital video aerial marine megafauna, ornithological and human activity surveys over four sites along the east Irish coast. Specifically, the surveys were commissioned to assess common scoter Melanitta nigra numbers and distribution. In the process of collecting this data was collected relating to a number of other species present at the survey sites.