Red Throated Diver Tagging
Project Overview:
Red Throated Diver Tagging
Status: Complete
Start Date: April 2019
Lead Organisation: Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC)
The project aimed to obtain data on the amount of time red throated divers spend foraging in the non-breeding season, from which their ability to accommodate additional energetic costs of displacement can be inferred. Adults breeding in Scotland, Finland and Iceland were tagged during the 2018 and 2019 breeding seasons, with tags retrieved during 2019, 2020 and 2021. Data analysis provided an indication of where each individual tagged bird wintered and detailed information on dive depth, duration and frequency.
Results revealed that divers may have the capacity to adapt their foraging behaviour to reflect changing conditions, and hence potentially accommodate the additional energetic cost of displacement.
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Project Funders:
- The Crown Estate
- Department for Energy Security and Net Zero Offshore Energy SEA fund
- Ørsted
- Equinor
- Vattenfall
Associated Organisations:
- Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC) (Lead Organisation)
- The Crown Estate
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To find out more information about the Red Throated Diver Project visit the JNCC website here