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Title: Session: What can we learn from developed wind resource areas

Abstract

This session at the Wind Energy and Birds/Bats workshop was composed of two parts intended to examine what existing science tells us about wind turbine impacts at existing wind project sites. Part one dealt with the Altamont Wind Resource area, one of the older wind projects in the US, with a paper presented by Carl Thelander titled ''Bird Fatalities in the Altamont Pass Wind Resource Area: A Case Study, Part 1''. Questions addressed by the presenter included: how is avian habitat affected at Altamont and do birds avoid turbine sites; are birds being attracted to turbine strings; what factors contribute to direct impacts on birds by wind turbines at Altamont; how do use, behavior, avoidance and other factors affect risk to avian species, and particularly impacts those species listed as threatened, endangered, or of conservation concern, and other state listed species. The second part dealt with direct impacts to birds at new generation wind plants outside of California, examining such is sues as mortality, avoidance, direct habitat impacts from terrestrial wind projects, species and numbers killed per turbine rates/MW generated, impacts to listed threatened and endangered species, to USFWS Birds of Conservation Concern, and to state listed species. This sessionmore » focused on newer wind project sites with a paper titled ''Bird Fatality and Risk at New Generation Wind Projects'' by Wally Erickson. Each paper was followed by a discussion/question and answer period.« less

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Publication Date:
Research Org.:
BioResource Consultants, Ojai, CA (US); West, Inc., Cheyenne, WY (US)
Sponsoring Org.:
none (US)
OSTI Identifier:
836927
Resource Type:
Conference
Resource Relation:
Conference: Proceedings of the Wind Energy and Birds/Bats Workshop, Washington, DC (US), 05/18/2004--05/19/2004; Other Information: PBD: 1 Sep 2004
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
17 WIND ENERGY; AVOIDANCE; BIRDS; CALIFORNIA; ENDANGERED SPECIES; HABITAT; MORTALITY; TURBINES; WIND TURBINES; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS; WIND POWER; WIND POWER PLANTS; USA

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Thelander, Carl, and Erickson, Wally. Session: What can we learn from developed wind resource areas. United States: N. p., 2004. Web.
Thelander, Carl, & Erickson, Wally. Session: What can we learn from developed wind resource areas. United States.
Thelander, Carl, and Erickson, Wally. 2004. "Session: What can we learn from developed wind resource areas". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/836927.
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abstractNote = {This session at the Wind Energy and Birds/Bats workshop was composed of two parts intended to examine what existing science tells us about wind turbine impacts at existing wind project sites. Part one dealt with the Altamont Wind Resource area, one of the older wind projects in the US, with a paper presented by Carl Thelander titled ''Bird Fatalities in the Altamont Pass Wind Resource Area: A Case Study, Part 1''. Questions addressed by the presenter included: how is avian habitat affected at Altamont and do birds avoid turbine sites; are birds being attracted to turbine strings; what factors contribute to direct impacts on birds by wind turbines at Altamont; how do use, behavior, avoidance and other factors affect risk to avian species, and particularly impacts those species listed as threatened, endangered, or of conservation concern, and other state listed species. The second part dealt with direct impacts to birds at new generation wind plants outside of California, examining such is sues as mortality, avoidance, direct habitat impacts from terrestrial wind projects, species and numbers killed per turbine rates/MW generated, impacts to listed threatened and endangered species, to USFWS Birds of Conservation Concern, and to state listed species. This session focused on newer wind project sites with a paper titled ''Bird Fatality and Risk at New Generation Wind Projects'' by Wally Erickson. Each paper was followed by a discussion/question and answer period.},
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year = {Wed Sep 01 00:00:00 EDT 2004},
month = {Wed Sep 01 00:00:00 EDT 2004}
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