Avian Fact Sheet

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OAK-B135 After conducting four national research meetings, producing a document guiding research: Metrics and Methods for Determining or Monitoring Potential Impacts on Birds at Existing and Proposed Wind Energy Sites, 1999, and another paper, Avian Collisions with Wind Turbines: A Summary of Existing Studies and Comparisons to Other Sources of Avian Collision Mortality in the United States, 2001, the subcommittee recognized a need to summarize in a short fact sheet what is known about avian-wind interaction and what questions remain. This fact sheet attempts to summarize in lay terms the result of extensive discussion about avian-wind interaction on land. This fact sheet does not address research conducted on offshore development. This fact sheet is not intended as a conclusion on the subject; rather, it is a summary as of Fall/Winter 2002.

Authors:: NWCC Wildlife Work Group

Publication Date:: Wed Dec 01 00:00:00 EST 2004

Research Org.:: RESOLVE, Inc. (US)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EE) (US)

OSTI Identifier:: 822421

Report Number(s):: 1B
TRN: US200414%%107

DOE Contract Number:: FG03-00SF22100

Resource Type:: Technical Report

Resource Relation:: Other Information: PBD: 1 Dec 2004

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 17 WIND ENERGY; BIRDS; METRICS; MONITORING; MORTALITY; WIND TURBINES

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