SEO/BirdLife
[Directives for Evaluating the Impact of Wind Farms on Birds and Bats]
Translation of its main points (by Mark Duchamp):
1. Spain has over 670 wind farms and 16,000 wind turbines.
2. Bird mortality varies betwen 0.63 and 10 birds per turbine per year in the US (National Wind Coordinating Committee, 2004), and between 1.2 in Oíz (Biscayne; Unamuno et al., 2005) and 64.26 at the El Perdón wind farm (Navarra; Lekuona, 2001). “This would indicate that Spanish wind farms could actually be killing between 19,000 and 1,000,000 birds a year.”
3. These figures should be considered with caution because the magnitude of the problem is likely to be much larger than has been suggested by the evidence found. The under-estimation of the threat may be due to the following:
4. A few examples show that the magnitude of the problem may be much bigger:
Some of the recommendations found in the report :
5. Vultures travel large distances in search of food every day. Wind farms should not be sited within 50 km of vulture colonies.
6. Wind farms should not be sited within 15 km of a nest of eagles.
7. Monitoring reports should be made available on a webpage.
Download original document: “Directrices para la Evaluación del Impacto de los Parques Eólicos en Aves y Murciélagos [2]”
URL to article: https://www.wind-watch.org/documents/directrices-para-la-evaluacion-del-impacto-de-los-parques-eolicos-en-aves-y-murcielagos/
URLs in this post:
[1] www.iberica2000.org/Es/Articulo.asp?Id=2968: http://www.iberica2000.org/Es/Articulo.asp?Id=2968
[2] Directrices para la Evaluación del Impacto de los Parques Eólicos en Aves y Murciélagos: https://docs.wind-watch.org/manual-parques-eolicos-para-web.pdf