The Seabird Colony Register (SCR) is a
database
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, managed by the
British Joint Nature Conservation Committee, which contains counts of breeding
seabirds at British
seabird colonies made between 1969 and 1998, which is used for analysing past changes in breeding seabird numbers and changes in their
colony size in Britain and Ireland.
Data included in the SCR include results of two complete seabird censuses of Britain and Ireland:
Operation Seafarer (1969/70) and the
Seabird Colony Register Census (1985–1987), as well as ad hoc counts and counts from other surveys. Data are held for all 25 species of seabird breeding throughout Britain and Ireland.
The SCR has been partially superseded by the
Seabird 2000 database.
References
* {{citation , title=The Status of Seabirds in Britain and Ireland , page=xv , last1=Lloyd , first1=Clare , last2=Tasker , first2=Mark L. , last3=Partridge , first3=Ken , year=1991 , publisher=T&AD Poyser , isbn=978-1-4081-3800-7 , url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4V0L-MbT6YEC
Conservation in the United Kingdom
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Databases in the United Kingdom
Birds in the United Kingdom
Bird censuses