https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/bird-conservation-international/article/abs/electric-infrastructure-poses-a-significant-threat-at-congregation-sites-of-the-globally-threatened-steppe-eagle-aquila-nipalensis-in-saudi-arabia/115B1CD3657C2B16D309F50A938A8718

The authors call for the urgent safeguarding of powerlines that cause mortality near known Steppe Eagle congregation sites, and the adoption and implementation of regulations that ensure that future infrastructure is constructed with designs that are safe for birds.

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 https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.13799

Win-win for wind energy and eagles

06 January 2021

By BES Press Office

Researchers create new tool that allows wind turbine developers to minimise risk of collisions with eagles. The findings are published in the Journal of Applied Ecology. https://www.britishecologicalsociety.org/win-win-for-wind-energy-and-eagles/

Ralston Paton, S., Smallie J., Pearson A., and Ramalho R. 2017. Wind energy’s impacts on birds in South Africa:

A preliminary review of the results of operational monitoring at the first wind farms of the Renewable Energy Independent Power Producer Procurement
Programme in South Africa.

BirdLife South Africa Occasional Report Series No. 2. BirdLife South Africa, Johannesburg, South Africa

https://www.birdlife.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Wind-Energy-and-Birds-Impacts.pdf

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