3d90a2b0-9a9e-4e39-8986-9082d1ec529e English ISO/IEC 8859-1 (also known as Latin 1) dataset dataset NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre Lancaster Environment Centre, Library Avenue, Bailrigg Lancaster LA1 4AP UK info@eidc.ac.uk https://eidc.ac.uk/ EIDC website The Environmental Information Data Centre (EIDC) is the UK's national data centre for terrestrial and freshwater sciences. information pointOfContact 2025-11-05T08:42:21 UK GEMINI 2.3 GB place names Diet of common guillemot and razorbill at East Caithness, Buchan Ness to Collieston Coast and Isle of May in 2019 2020-04-15 publication 2020-03-16 creation https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/3d90a2b0-9a9e-4e39-8986-9082d1ec529e 10.5285/3d90a2b0-9a9e-4e39-8986-9082d1ec529e doi: Andrews, C., Newell, M.A., Harris, M.P., Bennett, S.I., Wanless, S., Daunt, F. (2020). Diet of common guillemot and razorbill at East Caithness, Buchan Ness to Collieston Coast and Isle of May in 2019. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/3d90a2b0-9a9e-4e39-8986-9082d1ec529e This dataset contains prey items of common guillemot (Uria aalge) and razorbill (Alca torda) observed during the 2019 breeding season at East Caithness Special Protection Area (SPA), Buchan Ness to Collieston Coast SPA and Isle of May National Nature Reserve, off the east coast of Scotland. The diet of these two species has been studied on the Isle of May since the 1980s. To our knowledge, the only previous studies of diet were undertaken at Buchan Ness to Collieston Coast SPA (in 2006, 6km to the north of the site used in this study; and in 2017 & 2018, using a similar protocol as in 2019), and previous studies of diet have been undertaken at East Caithness SPA (2017 & 2018). Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/3d90a2b0-9a9e-4e39-8986-9082d1ec529e Andrews, C. UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2428-272X ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author Newell, M.A. UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4723-175X ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author Harris, M.P. UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk author Bennett, S.I. UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk author Wanless, S. UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2788-4606 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author Daunt, F. UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4638-3388 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author Daunt, F. UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4638-3388 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information pointOfContact NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk custodian NERC Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk publisher Species Distribution theme GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 2008-06-01 publication Scotland Isle of May GeoNames 2006-01-01 creation Biodiversity IMLOTS Isle of May Long-Term Study Seabirds Auks Razorbill Guillemot otherRestrictions no limitations otherRestrictions © UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology otherRestrictions This resource is available under the terms of the Open Government Licence otherRestrictions If you reuse this data, you should cite: Andrews, C., Newell, M.A., Harris, M.P., Bennett, S.I., Wanless, S., Daunt, F. (2020). Diet of common guillemot and razorbill at East Caithness, Buchan Ness to Collieston Coast and Isle of May in 2019. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/3d90a2b0-9a9e-4e39-8986-9082d1ec529e textTable 1000 English utf8 biota environment oceans 2019-04-01 2019-07-31 -4.429 -1.528 55.899 58.778 Comma-separated values (CSV) NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk distributor https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/data/3d90a2b0-9a9e-4e39-8986-9082d1ec529e Download the data Download a copy of this data download https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/3d90a2b0-9a9e-4e39-8986-9082d1ec529e.zip Supporting information Supporting information available to assist in re-use of this dataset information dataset dataset Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services 2010-12-08 Seabird studies on the Isle of May NNR were begun by Mike Harris (CEH) in 1973 as part of the Isle of May Long-Term Study (IMLOTS), which is a Key Site in the UK Joint Nature Conservation Committee’s (JNCC) national Seabird Monitoring Programme. The methods for calculating diet are included in the Species Account in this document and have been consistent since all seabird monitoring was standardised from 1987. The protocols are employed in the assessment of the diet of common guillemot and razorbill. The basic approach to assessing common guillemot and razorbill diet is observing prey carried in the bills of breeding adults returning to the colony to feed the young or, in the case of common guillemot only, to display to other adults. All fieldwork, sampling and data handling was carried out by experienced and trained staff to defined protocols agreed to meet the objectives of the work. All data were collected in the field in notebooks and field data sheets. These were transcribed to spreadsheets after each check was made and files backed up on CEH servers. All notebooks and field sheets are archived at CEH Edinburgh. The databases used were all quality controlled at source. The integrity of results, the quality of reports, the relationship to contracted deliverables and the punctuality of reporting are all subject to management vetting and tracking within CEH.