Wind Energy and Wildlife Interactions: Presentations from the CWW2015 Conference

Red Kites and wind farms - telemetry data from the core breeding range.- Unforeseen responses of a breeding seabird to the construction of an offshore wind farm.- A large-scale, multispecies assessment of avian mortality rates at land-based wind turbines in northern Germany.- A method to assess the population-level consequences of wind energy on bird and bat species.- Bat activity at nacelle height over forest.- Bird mortality in two Dutch wind farms: effects of location, spatial design and interactions with powerlines.- Radar assisted shutdown on demand ensures zero soaring bird mortality at a wind farm located in a migratory flyway.- Mitigating bat mortality with turbine-specific curtailment algorithms: a model based approach.- Is there a State-of-the-Art to Reduce Pile-Driving Noise?.- The Challenges of Repowering in the Context of Wildlife Impacts.- Wind farms in areas of high ornithological value - conflicts, solutions, challenges: the case of Thrace, Greece.- Introducing a New Avian Sensitivity Mapping Tool to Support the Siting of Wind Farms in the Middle East and Northeast Africa.- A framework for assessing ecological and cumulative effects (FAECE) of offshore wind farms on birds, bats and marine mammals in the southern North Sea.- Wind turbines and birds in Germany - examples of current knowledge, new insights and remaining gaps.- Future research directions to reconcile wind-wildlife interactions.- Sharing Information on Environmental Effects of Wind Energy Development: WREN Hub