JNCC seabird distribution and abundance data (all trips) from ESAS database

Original provider: European Seabirds at Sea Dataset credits: Joint Nature Conservation Committee (United Kingdom) Nederlands Instituut voor Onderzoek der Zee (the Netherlands) Ornis Consult (Denmark) National Institute for Coastal and Marine Management/RIKZ (the Netherlands) Nederlands Zeevogelgroep (the Netherlands) Instituut voor Bos- en Natuuronderzoek (the Netherlands) Instituut voor Natuur Behoud (Belgium) National Environmental Research Institute (Denmark) Norsk Institutt for Naturforskning (Norway) Vogelwarte Helgoland (Germany) Abstract: The European Seabirds at Sea (ESAS) database was established in 1991 as a collaboration between individuals and institutes who had collected data on the distribution of seabirds and marine mammals in north-west European offshore areas. The most recent version of this database contains over two million records which were collected over 25 years.