A new haven for sandwich terns is proposed on Loch Ryan to mitigate the impact hundreds of miles away.
A seabird colony in south-west Scotland could be set for a revival - courtesy of two wind farms hundreds of miles away.
It is part of mitigation measures for the Sheringham Shoal and Dudgeon offshore wind farm extensions which could affect bird numbers off the Norfolk coast. They are also in the process of building the world's largest offshore wind farm at Dogger Bank off the Yorkshire coast.The development in southern Scotland is intended to compensate for the predicted impact on breeding sandwich terns of extensions to its two Norfolk schemes.
The locations considered stretched all the way from Dungeness in Kent to Caithness and Orkney in Scotland."That is a site in south-west Scotland which, if restored, would significantly improve the geographical coherence of the sandwich tern breeding range in Britain and Ireland," it found.
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