White-tailed eagles (Haliaeetus albicilla) at the Smøla wind-power plant, central Norway, lack behavioral flight responses to wind turbines

Wildlife Society Bulletin

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 66-74

  Dahl, Espen Lie ^a   May, Roel ^a   Hoel, Pernille Lund ^b,c   Bevanger, Kjetil ^a   Pedersen, Hans Chr ^a   Røskaft, Eivin ^b   Stokke, Bård G ^b  

^a NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR NATURE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^c Norwegian Water Resources   (Norway)

Author keywords

Behavior; Collision; Flight response; Haliaeetus albicilla; Mortality; Norway; Sm la; White tailed eagle; Wind turbines

Indexed keywords

AVOIDANCE REACTION; BREEDING SEASON; COASTAL ZONE; COLLISION; FLIGHT ACTIVITY; FLIGHT BEHAVIOR; MORTALITY; POWER PLANT; RAPTOR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; VULNERABILITY; WIND POWER; WIND TURBINE;

NORWAY;

AVES; HALIAEETUS ALBICILLA; RAPTORES;

EID: 84878299508     PISSN: 00917648     EISSN: 19385463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wsb.258     Document Type: Article

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