wind farms Archives - British Ornithologists' Union

Where eagles dare to fly

By Ashleigh Marshall (she/her)|2024-11-17T21:12:57+00:0014 Nov 2024|climate change, collision, collision risk, eagle, wildlife collision, wind energy, wind farms, wind turbine|

The relationship between eagle flight characteristics and rotor-swept zone entry varies per wind turbine

Preventing eagles from hitting wind turbines

By Jente Ottenburghs (he/him)|2023-07-09T10:06:46+00:0013 Jul 2023|behaviour, bird-human interactions, birds of prey, collision risk, raptors, wind farms|

Which flight characteristics predict entry into rotor-swept zones?

Are Sandwich Terns at risk of collision?

By Mark Collier|2023-02-08T12:26:34+00:0013 Feb 2023|behaviour, bird-human interactions, collision risk, fieldwork, flight, foraging, monitoring, mortality, renewable energy, Seabirds, wind farms|

Flight heights of Sandwich Terns higher than previous estimates

Displacement of auks by offshore wind farms

By Bob Furness|2022-11-18T15:15:35+00:0021 Nov 2022|bio-logging, distribution, geolocator, movement, movements, non-breeding ecology, overwintering, ringing, Seabirds, tracking, wind farms|

Geolocator studies clarify which populations are most at risk

Wind farms and Hen Harriers in Ireland

By Mark Wilson|2021-05-07T12:10:19+00:0022 Nov 2017|Conservation, raptors, renewable energy, wind farms|

Considerable spatial overlap and weak evidence for impact

Offshore wind: the importance of bird density and breeding season definitions

By Andrew Tongue|2021-12-05T13:15:31+00:0024 Nov 2014|Bird Protection, Breeding, Conservation, Disturbance, Migration, News, renewable energy, Seabirds, tracking, wind farms|

Offshore collision risk modelling can be insufficiently precautionary