Differential mortality of birds killed at wind farms in Northern Portugal.
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2014
Autores
Santos, Mário
Cabral, João Alexandre
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Taylor & Francis
Resumo
The Skylark Alauda arvensis had the highest overall mortality in ten Northern Portuguese wind
farms surveyed between 2006 and 2011. Analysis from the integration of conventional and molecular
techniques suggest a sex and age biased mortality affecting mainly adult males (90.9%), which may be
related to their characteristic breeding male song-flights making them highly vulnerable to collision with
wind turbines. The results highlight the added value of more complete population impact assessments
that go beyond simple carcass identification at wind farms.
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Differential mortality , Northern Portugal , Birds killed , Wind farms
Citação
Morinha et al. 2014