Equinor bird monitoring at Hywind Tampen

Occurrence Observation
Latest version published by Equinor on Sept 4, 2025 Equinor
Publication date:
4 September 2025
Published by:
Equinor
License:
CC-BY 4.0

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Description

Three CCTV cameras are installed in the Hywind Tampen floating offshore wind farm in Norway for the purpose of health, safety and environmental (HSE) monitoring. However, the data collected by these cameras also offer the potential to document presence, abundance and behaviour of birds within the offshore wind farm. To investigate this, Equinor partnered with Spoor to rapidly scale this approach, and contribute to filling key gaps in our understanding of bird movements in and around offshore wind farms.

The birds in the dataset were identified by applying Spoor's AI bird-monitoring technology to Hywind Tampen video material provided by Equinor. For further details on the methodology and results, please see the associated report: https://cdn.equinor.com/files/h61q9gi9/global/c4a3e3487044b0280804db9fc9cb4e1d890f374f.pdf?spoor-review-ai-avian-monitoring-cctv-cameras-floating-wind-turbines-equinor.pdf

Data Records

The data in this occurrence resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 751 records.

This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.

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How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Mogstad A A (2025). Equinor bird monitoring at Hywind Tampen. Version 1.2. Equinor. Occurrence dataset. https://ipt.gbif.no/resource?r=equinor_bird_monitoring_hyt&v=1.2

Rights

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The publisher and rights holder of this work is Equinor. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License.

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 8985a0b3-f68a-4c47-9bc7-29bfa6e75076.  Equinor publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF Norway.

Keywords

Occurrence; Observation

Contacts

Aksel Alstad Mogstad
  • Metadata Provider ●
  • Originator ●
  • User ●
  • Point Of Contact
  • Sr Researcher
Equinor
NO
Ingunn Nilssen
  • Point Of Contact
  • Lead Researcher
Equinor
NO

Geographic Coverage

Hywind Tampen floating offshore wind farm.

Bounding Coordinates South West [61.299, 2.26], North East [61.327, 2.289]

Taxonomic Coverage

No Description available

Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Class Aves
Order Charadriiformes, Strigiformes, Suliformes
Family Strigidae, Sulidae, Phalacrocoracidae, Laridae

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date 2024-01-02 / 2024-10-15

Additional Metadata