Collision Risk and Flight Risk Modelling has been used for many years to predict areas of highest risk to birds in a wind farm environment. More sophisticated models now take uncertainty into account.
Patterning wind turbine blades reduces avian fatalities
Wind farms are often in the news for the wrong reasons – they kill soaring birds, and are particularly adept at killing raptors, despite the raptor’s legendary vision.
Research on eagle mortalities at an operational wind farm
As more wind farms come online in South Africa, so more raptors and bats will interact with operational turbines. But how do birds behave around these farms?
Satellite tracking of raptors and mitigating collision risks
Satellite-tracking of raptors and bats allows us to understand their foraging, breeding and migratory behaviour and to assist developers in placing turbines with sensitivity to vulnerable species.