TY - JOUR
TI - Bat Mortality at a Wind Power Facility in Central Canada
AU - Jameson, J
AU - Willis, C
T2 - Northwestern Naturalist
AB - Bat mortality has been reported at industrial scale wind facilities across North America, with tree-roosting bats accounting for most fatalities, but no data exist for central Canada. We quantified rates of mortality at a wind energy facility in Manitoba, Canada by conducting standardized carcass searches corrected for searcher efficiency and scavenging from mid-August to mid-September 2007. We found that mortality was consistent with, but qualitatively higher than that at comparable wind facilities in western Canada. Mortality of the species most commonly killed, Silver-haired Bats, was evenly distributed across the wind facility, but mortality of Hoary and Eastern Red Bats was higher at some turbines than others.
DA - 2012/11//
PY - 2012
VL - 93
SP - 194
EP - 202
UR - http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1898/12-03.1
DO - 10.1898/12-03.1
LA - English
KW - Wind Energy
KW - Land-Based Wind
KW - Collision
KW - Bats
ER -