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<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='color:black'>HUEBECK, M.<span
style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>2006.<span style="mso-spacerun:
yes">&nbsp; </span>The Shetland beached bird survey, 1979-2004.<span
style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span><i>Marine Ornithology </i></span><span
lang=EN-GB style='color:black'>34: 123-127.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='color:black'>Results of monthly
beached bird surveys in Shetland over a 26-year period are summarised. After
initial high oiling rates in 1979, the incidence of oiled birds dropped to
lower levels by winter 1980/81. Operational controls at the Sullom Voe Terminal
to prevent deballasting at sea by visiting tankers almost certainly contributed
to the reduction. Since then there have been some periods of relatively high
oiling rates, interspersed with increasingly longer periods of lower oiling
rates. At all times since 1979, oiling rates compared favourably with those
recorded from long-term beached bird surveys in the southern North Sea,
particularly during 1999-2004. Recent analyses of oil samples from beaches and
birds indicate that fuel oils predominate, whereas a majority of samples during
1979-80 were of crudes or crude sludges. In view of recent changes in crude oil
throughput at the Sullom Voe Terminal, beached bird surveys remain an important
tool for monitoring chronic oil pollution around the islands.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>

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