Year Published: 2018 Map-based collision hazard models were prepared as a set of tools to help guide the careful siting of proposed new wind turbines as part of the repowering effort at Sand Hill in the eastern Alameda County portion of the Altamont Pass Wind Resource Area (APWRA). Similar collision hazard models were prepared for…
Author: Dave Johnston, Judd Howell, Scott Terrill, Nellie Thorngate, Jim Castle, Jeff SmithPublication: California Energy CommissionYear Published: 2013 Birds and bats have become important factors in the siting and permitting of wind-energy facilities. Identifying methods to avoid, minimize, and mitigate bird and bat fatalities should help streamline wind energy permitting and reduce potential impacts to…
Author: H.T. Harvey & AssociatesPublication: American Wind and Wildlife InstituteYear Published: 2018 Bird collisions with anthropogenic objects are well documented in the literature, including those involving wind turbines. The purpose of this study was to evaluate and help improve the effectiveness of an automated detection and deterrent system designed to minimize the risk of raptors…
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,…