Estimating Wind Turbine–Caused Bird Mortality

By K. Smallwood. 2007

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Subfields: Ecology

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Avian and Bat Fatality Rates at Old-Generation and Repowered Wind Turbines in California (2009, methodology): “We estimated bat fatality rates by applying scavengerremoval and searcher-detection rates estimated for smallbodied bird species (Smallwood 2007).”
Direct human‐caused mortality of birds: improving quantification of magnitude and assessment of population impact (2012, background): “Analyses of factors affecting detection have been conducted for many mortality sources, including wind turbines (Smallwood 2007), agricultural poisoning (reviewed by Prosser et al .”
Spatial distribution of wind turbines is crucial for the survival of red kite populations (2012, background): “…and bats, the relationship between the type of wind turbine and collision risk, and the evaluation of locations of wind farms to minimise their environmental impact (e.g., Barrios and Rodriguez, 2004; Eichhorn and Drechsler, 2010; Kiesecker et al., 2011; Kuvlesky et al., 2007; Smallwood, 2007).”
A review of searcher efficiency and carcass persistence in infrastructure-driven mortality assessment studies (2018, methodology): “We tested the following explanatory variables: i) Body mass (range 9–4000 g), which we expect to be positively related to searcher efficiency (e.g. Smallwood, 2007; Ponce et al., 2010).”
Carcass removal by scavengers and search accuracy affect bird mortality estimates at power lines (2010, background): “…pesticide treatment in North America or northern Europe (reviewed in Prosser et al., 2008) and some at wind turbines (reviewed in Morrison, 2002; Siriwardena et al., 2007), and a few analogous studies have been published in relation to mortality at power lines (e.g. Bevanger, Bakke & Engen,…”
A Synthesis of Human-related Avian Mortality in Canada (2013, background): “However, because of the skewed nature of carcass life expectancies (fresh carcasses disappear quickly, older carcasses cease to be of interest to scavengers), attempts to calculate overall probabilities of detection by using mean carcass ‘life-expectancies’ have generally been unsatisfactory and hea”
Avian mortality at communication towers in the United States and Canada: which species, how many, and where? (2013, background): “Additional uncertainty could arise from differential detectability of carcasses among species of different sizes (Smallwood, 2007).”
Novel Scavenger Removal Trials Increase Wind Turbine–Caused Avian Fatality Estimates (2010, methodology): “This bias was termed scavenger swamping and can lead to low estimates of fatality rates (Smallwood 2007).”