First year post-construction monitoring of birds at Wind Turbine Test Centre Østerild

Ole Roland Therkildsen; Thorsten Johannes Skovbjerg Balsby; Geoffrey Brian Groom; Rasmus Due Nielsen; Lars Haugaard; Henrik Haaning Nielsen; Jørgen Peter Kjeldsen

First year post-construction monitoring of birds at Wind Turbine Test Centre Østerild

Ole Roland Therkildsen, Thorsten Johannes Skovbjerg Balsby, Geoffrey Brian Groom, Rasmus Due Nielsen, Lars Haugaard, Henrik Haaning Nielsen , Jørgen Peter Kjeldsen

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The Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University was commissioned by the DanishNature Agency to undertake a bird monitoring programme of a national testcentre for wind turbines near Østerild in Thy, Denmark. Here we present the results from the first year of the post-construction studies. Whooper swan, taiga bean goose, pink-footed goose, common crane, light-bellied brent goose, white-tailed eagle and nightjar were included as focal species in the ornithological investigations. In addition, species specific data on all bird species occurring regularly in the study area were collected. On the basis of an intermediate assessment of collision risk, the potential impacts of the combined structures on the bird species occurring in the study area were considered unlikely to be significant. However, given the uncertainties in the assessment, the post-construction programme will continue to investigate potential impacts on bats and birds.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	First year post-construction monitoring of bats and birds at Wind Turbine Test Centre Østerild
Editors	Ole Roland Therkildsen, Morten Elmeros
Volume	133
Publisher	Aarhus University, DCE - Danish Centre for Environment and Energy
Publication date	2015
Pages	35-125
Commissioning body	Naturstyrelsen
Publication status	Published - 2015

Keywords

Birds
Wind turbines
Flight altitude
Avoidance
Post-construction
Impact assessment
Østerild
Test cenrte
Denmark
Collision risk

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Therkildsen, O. R., Balsby, T. J. S., Groom, G. B., Nielsen, R. D., Haugaard, L., Nielsen , H. H., & Kjeldsen, J. P. (2015). First year post-construction monitoring of birds at Wind Turbine Test Centre Østerild. In O. R. Therkildsen, & M. Elmeros (Eds.), First year post-construction monitoring of bats and birds at Wind Turbine Test Centre Østerild (Vol. 133, pp. 35-125). Aarhus University, DCE - Danish Centre for Environment and Energy. http://dce2.au.dk/pub/SR133.pdf

Therkildsen, Ole Roland ; Balsby, Thorsten Johannes Skovbjerg ; Groom, Geoffrey Brian et al. / First year post-construction monitoring of birds at Wind Turbine Test Centre Østerild. First year post-construction monitoring of bats and birds at Wind Turbine Test Centre Østerild. editor / Ole Roland Therkildsen ; Morten Elmeros. Vol. 133 Aarhus University, DCE - Danish Centre for Environment and Energy, 2015. pp. 35-125

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