Author: Abd El-Aleem Saad Soliman DesokyPublication: Sohag UniversityYear Published: 2014 Birds are a serious problem at airports threat to aviation safety. Since the early days of aviation, collisions of aircraft and birds have taken place, sometimes with fatal consequences Generally, the damage due to their size of the bird species involved, hunting behavior, and hovering/soaring…
Author: Matthew WylderPublication: Wind Harvest InternationalYear Published: 2014 WHI commissioned UCD engineer Matt Wylder to take the Scottish Natural Heritage model for calculating bird strikes in HAWTs and redo it for VAWTs. His paper “Vertical Axis Wind Turbines and Birds: Calculating a Theoretical Collision Risk Assuming No Avoiding Action” summarizes a number of runs he…
Author: Blair UrquhartPublication: Scottish Natural HeritageYear Published: 2010 The SNH Collision Risk Model (CRM) provides an estimate of the potential number of bird collisions likely to occur at a proposed wind farm. Birds react to a wind farm in different ways. Some may be displaced from the area of the wind farm, while others may…
Publication: Scottish Natural HeritageYear Published: 2000 Windfarms may impact on ornithological interests in a number of ways. There may be: loss of habitat due to the construction of turbine bases and tracks, displacement of birds as a result of disturbance, and potential mortality through collision. SNH Guidance note describes a methodology for assessing in full…
Publication: BBC NewsYear Published: 2006 Wind farm turbine blades are killing a key population of Europe’s largest bird of prey, UK wildlife campaigners warn.
Author: Ralph PowleslandPublication: Science For Conservation 289Year Published: 2009 The impacts of wind farms on New Zealand bird species and populations are unknown. This document reviews available literature on the impacts of on shore wind farms on birds, based on studies in other countries. A key finding is that wind farms tend to have variable effects on bird…
Author: R.H.W. Langston and J.D. PullanPublication: RSPB/BirdlifeYear Published: 2004 This report was commissioned by the Council of Europe for the Bern Convention as an update of the one commissioned by them last year and presented to the 22nd meeting of the Standing Committee for information. Its remit is to analyse the impact of wind farms on birds, establishing criteria…
Author: Wallace P. Erickson, Gregory D. Johnson, and David P. Young Jr.Publication: USDA Forest ServiceYear Published: 2005 We estimate that from 500 million to possibly over 1 billion birds are killed annually in the United States due to anthropogenic sources including collisions with human-made structures such as vehicles, buildings and windows, power lines, communication towers,…
Author: David GallagherPublication: Cal Poly BIO 502Year Published: 2013 If you have driven over Tehachapi Pass on Highway 58, you probably could not have helped but notice the 500 or so wind turbines that dot the ridges. These turbines make-up the Alta Wind Energy Center, the largest wind farm in the United States at 1,320…
Author: Nic SharpleyPublication: Windpower Engineering & DevelopmentYear Published: 2013 Unfortunately, the wind industry does not yet have a handle on the issue of the rising bat mortality rate. Researchers initially believed bat deaths at wind farms were the same as birds, but autopsies have revealed a more complex situation. Currently, there is no quick fix…