Reports on birds
List with reports on completed bird studies (Wozep)
Guidance documents
1. Validation of a bird radar system (pdf, 2.6 MB)
2. Monitoring radar performance data collection and data quality (pdf, 1 MB)
2024
Coast- and Seabirds
Bird research in offshore wind farm Borssele (pdf, 6.4 MB)
ZV.7b1 Avoidance of offshore wind farms by Sandwich Terns (pdf, 5.9 MB)
ZV.2 Seabird maps of the North Sea - methodology description (pdf, 3.8 MB)
2022
- Automatic analysis of digital aerial surveys
- Bird fluxes, flight- and avoidance behaviour of birds in offshore wind farm Luchterduinen (pdf, 7.4 MB)
- Sandwich Terns in the Netherlands in 2019-2021 (pdf, 19 MB)
- North Sea crossings by Eurasian Curlew (pdf, 12 MB)
- High-definition bird and marine mammal aerial survey image collection in Borssele (pdf, 3.3 MB)
- Tracking lesser black-backed and herring gulls in the Dutch Delta (pdf, 25 MB)
2021
- Inventory report on update the ESAS database for the North Sea (pdf, 1.2 MB)
- Individual-based model lesser black-backed gulls in the Netherlands - revised version (pdf, 4.4 MB)
- Review of tracking devices to study spatio-temporal disturbance of seabirds by offshore wind farms (pdf, 7.7 MB)
2020
- Origin of large gulls in the North Sea (pdf, 45 MB)
- Eindrapport Showcase Eemshaven (pdf, 7 MB)
- Haalbaarheidsstudie naar een voorspellend vogeltrekmodel en stilstandvoorziening (pdf, 1.7 MB)
- Prediction and measurement of high intensity bird migration (pdf, 13 MB)
- Rapportage Aanvarings Slachtoffers Eemshaven (pdf, 3.3 MB)
- Survival rates of birds for use in population models (pdf, 1.6 MB)
2019
- Spatial and temporal distribution of different age classes of seabirds in the North Sea (pdf, 7.5 MB)
- Effects of turbine collision mortality on population dynamics of 13 bird species (pdf, 5.2 MB)
- The consequences of seabird habitat loss from offshore wind turbines, version 2 (pdf, 8.7 MB)
2018
- Effects of wind farms on the spatial distribution of Guillemots (pdf, 41 MB)
- Ecological discussion of statistical analyses Guillemots and OWF (pdf, 343 kB)
- Leopold M.F. & Verdaat H.J.P. (2018). Pilot field study: observations from a fixed platform on occurrence and behaviour of common guillemots and other seabirds in offshore wind farm Luchterduinen (WOZEP Birds-2). Wageningen, Wageningen Marine Research (University & Research centre), (Nr. C068/18). 27 pp.
2017
- Dirksen, S. (2017). Review of methods and techniques for field validation of collision rates and avoidance amongst birds and bats at offshore wind turbines (final report Phase 1) (Nr. SjDE 17-01), Sjoerd Dirksen Ecology.
- Gyimesi, A., Evans, T.J., Linnebjerg, J.F., de Jong, J.W., Collier, M.P., Fijn, R.C. (2017). Review and analysis of tracking data to delineate flight characteristics and migration routes of birds over the Southern North Sea (Nr 16-139), Bureau Waardenburg bv.
- Leopold, M.F. (23 May 2017), Seabirds? What seabirds? - An exploratory study into the origin of seabirds visiting the SE North Sea and their survival bottlenecks (Nr. C046/17), Wageningen Marine Research. 47pp. (pdf, 2.9 MB)
- Rippen, A.D., van der Zee, E., Brenninkmeijer A. (2017). Quickscan opportunities and constraints catching gulls at sea, (Nr. 2356), Altenburg & Wymenga ecological consultants. pp 39.