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Potential feeding sites for seabirds and marine mammals reveal large overlap with offshore wind energy development worldwide
Author: Morant, Jon; et al.
Abstract: Offshore wind energy is experiencing accelerated growth worldwide to support global net zero ambitions. To ensure responsible development and to protect the natural environment, it is essential to understand and mitigate the potential impacts on wildlife, particularly on seabirds and marine mammals. However, fully understanding the effects of offshore wind energy production requires characterising its global geographic occurrence and its potential overlap with marine species. This study aims to generate risk maps of interaction between offshore and seabirds and . . .
More »Mapping bird and bat assemblage vulnerability for predicting wind energy impact
Author: Morant, Jon; et al.
Highlights Passerines and raptors faced the highest bird casualties with griffon vultures most affected. Vespertilionidae bats accounted for 94 percent of deaths with P.pipistrellus most affected. Birds with aerial lifestyles and trophic levels correlated with turbine collisions. Bat mortality in wind turbines was related to guild-type. High vulnerability areas for birds and bats are in southern southeastern and northern Spain. Abstract: We examined the main ecological traits linked to wind turbine mortality in 214 bird and 19 bat species in . . .
More »Birds and wind turbines: a collection of research
Author: Various
Visual fields, foraging and collision vulnerability in gulls (Laridae) Ibis (2025), 167, 386–396. doi:10.1111/ibi.13360 Jennifer C. Cantlay, Graham R. Martin, School of Biological Sciences, Royal Holloway University of London, Egham, Surrey, UK Steven J. Portugal, The Natural History Museum, Tring, and Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, UK Visual field configurations can render some species more vulnerable to collisions with human artefacts that extend into open airspace, such as power lines and wind turbines. Visual fields have three main components: . . .
More »Golden Eagles in Karatau and the Chu-Ili Mountains (Kazakhstan) and Assessment of Risks to Its Populations from Developing Wind Energy
Author: Karyakin, Igor; et al.
Abstract The Golden Eagle (Aquila chrysaetos) is the largest eagle in Kazakhstan, breeding in almost all mountainous and forested areas of the country. In Karatau and the Chu-Ili Mountains, there are two large breeding groups of this species, which have been threatened by the development of a network of windpower plants (WPPs) since 2021, because both of these breeding groups are concentrated in powerful wind corridors that are promising for wind energy generation. We modelled the distribution of the Golden . . .
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