NWCC Releases Fact Sheet, Wind Turbine Interactions with Birds, Bats, and their Habitats
NWCC Wildlife Workgroup releases a fact sheet that summarizes what is known about bird and bat interactions with land-based wind power in North America.
June 4, 2010
By National Wind Coordinating Collaborative (NWCC)
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This fact sheet, which is a product of the NWCC Wildlife Workgroup, summarizes what is known about bird and bat interactions with land-based wind power in North America, including habitat impacts, and what key questions and knowledge gaps remain. It uses the following three-tiered classification of wind-wildlife relationships based on the weight of the evidence and agreement, or lack thereof, among researchers in the field on each particular statement contained in the Fact Sheet:
“What Studies Have Shown” are conclusions widely supported by peer-reviewed studies and on which there is broad consensus among researchers.
“What Is Less Well Understood” presents ideas reached by some field studies, but either the evidence is too limited to support a firm and broadly applicable conclusion, there is some evidence to the contrary, or there is some controversy regarding the idea among researchers.
“Areas Where Little Is Known” presents questions to which even tentative conclusions cannot yet be reached based on current information and data gaps. These questions are hypotheses yet to be tested or are gaps in current knowledge that have been identified by researchers.
