Proposed special protection areas for Scottish marine birds: supplementary consultation

Appendix A: Tabulation of Site and Qualifying Species details for the Preferred Policy Recommendation and 4 Reasonable Alternatives

n = number of qualifying species.  

ROM = regularly occurring migratory species

nb = non-breeding

b = breeding

Preferred Policy Recommendation

Reasonable Alternative 1

Red highlights (e.g. n = 5) indicate pSPAs where the number of qualifying species represented in the network by the Reasonable Alternative is different to the Preferred Policy Recommendation.

Reasonable Alternative 2

Red highlights (e.g. n = 5) indicate pSPAs where the number of qualifying species represented in the network by the Reasonable Alternative is different to the Preferred Policy Recommendation.

Reasonable Alternative 3 

Red highlights (e.g. n = 3) indicate pSPAs where the number of qualifying species represented in the network by the Reasonable Alternative is different to the Preferred Policy Recommendation.

Reasonable Alternative 4 

Red highlights (e.g. n = 3) indicate pSPAs where the number of qualifying species represented in the network by the Reasonable Alternative is different to the Preferred Policy Recommendation.