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…
Author: Jason W. Horn, Edward B Arnett, Thomas H. KunzPublication: J. Wildlife ManagementYear Published: 2008 Wind power is one of the fastest growing sectors of the energy industry. Recent studies have reported large numbers of migratory tree-roosting bats being killed at utility-scale wind power facilities, especially in the eastern United States. We used thermal infrared…
Author: Thomas Kunz, Edward Arnett, Brian Cooper, Wallace Erickson, Ronald Larkin, Todd Mabee, Michael Morrison, Dale Strickland, and Joseph SzewczakPublication: J. Wildlife ManagementYear Published: 2007 Our purpose is to provide researchers, consultants, decision-makers, and other stakeholders with guidance to methods and metrics for investigating nocturnally active birds and bats in relation to utility-scale wind-energy development.…
Author: Federica Roscioni, Hugo Rebelo, Danilo Russo, Maria Laura Carranza, Mirko Di Febbraro, Anna LoyPublication: Lanscape EcolYear Published: 2014 Little is known about the potentially disrupting effects of wind farms on the habitat connectivity of flying vertebrates at the landscape scale. We developed a regional-scale model to assess the wind farm impact on bat migration…