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References

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Dawson N.M.  2006.  The role of great skuas in the decline of the Arctic skua on Fetlar 1986-2006.  MSc thesis.  RSPB/University of Aberdeen.

Ellis P., Hawkins I. & Sexton D.  1991.  Fetlar RSPB Management Plan.   RSPB Unpubl.

Furness, R.W.  1990.  Numbers and population changes of Manx Shearwater on Rhum.  Nature Conservancy Council Rep. 1168.

Furness R.W. 1996.  1996 Survey of moorland breeding seabirds on Hoy, Orkney.  Internal SNH Report, Aberdeen.

Gibbons, D.W., Reid, J.B. & Chapman, R.A. 1993. The New Atlas of Breeding Birds in Britain and Ireland: 1988-1991. Poyser, London.

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Harding N. & Riley H.  2000.  The use of waters surrounding their colonies by seabirds in Scotland.  Scottish Natural Heritage, Unpubl. internal report. 

Harris M.P. & Wanless S. 1996. Differential responses of guillemot Uria aalge and shag Phalacrocorax aristotelis to a late winter wreck. Bird Study, 43, 220-230.

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JNCC 1999.  The Birds Directive.  Selection guidelines for Special Protection Areas.  Peterborough, JNCC. 6 pp

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Mavor, Roderick A. & Addlesee, H.A. 2007.  Common Standards Monitoring (CSM) of breeding seabirds at sites in Grampian.  Report to Scottish Natural Heritage re. Project No. 21529

McSorley C.A., Dean B.J., Webb A. & Reid J.B.  2003.  Seabird use of waters adjacent to colonies: Implications for seaward extensions to existing breeding seabird colony Special Protection Areas.  JNCC Report, No. 329.

McSorley C.A., Wilson, L.J., Dunn T.E., Gray C., Dean B.J., Webb A. & Reid J.B. 2008. Manx shearwater Puffinus puffinus evening rafting behaviour around colonies on Skomer, Rum and Bardsey: its spatial extent and implications for recommending seaward boundary extensions to existing colony Special Protection Areas in the UK.  JNCC Report No. 406.

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