Windpower Technical Advisory Group

This section includes research and reports from the following organizations:

American Wind Energy Association

• Proceedings of AWEA/American Bird Conservancy Workshop, May 2004 (pdf)
  
• Kerlinger Report on Lighting and Migratory Birds, Lansdowne 11/04 (pdf)
  
• NWCC Wind/Birds/Bats Fact Sheet 2004 (pdf)
  
• WEST Wind/Avian Studies Page
  
• Avian Collisions with Wind Turbines: A Summary of Existing Studies and Comparisons to Other Sources of Avian Collision Mortality in the United States, National Wind Coordinating Committee (Aug 2001) (pdf)
  
• Cats and Wildlife: A Conservation Dilemma, University of Wisconsin – Madison (1997)
  
• The Environmental Imperative for Renewable Energy: An Update, Renewable Energy Policy Project (Apr 2000) (pdf)
  
• Global Warming and the Species Richness of Bats in Texas, Conservation Biology (Apr 1996) (pdf)
  
• Synthesis and Comparison of Baseline Avian and Bat Use, Raptor Nesting and Mortality Information from Proposed and Existing Wind Developments, Bonneville Power Administration (Dec 2002) (pdf)
  
• Western EcoSystems Technology, Inc. Wind/Avian Studies Page
  
• What Kills Birds, Curry & Kerlinger
  
• Laid to Waste: Environmental Impacts of Coal Waste, Clean Air Task Force (Mar 2000)
  
• “Is Acid Rain Killing Off Wood Thrushes?” National Geographic (Aug 2002)
  
• Bats & Wind Energy Cooperative final report from 2004 research season (pdf)
  
• A comparison of nocturnal call counts of migrating birds and reflectivity measurements on Doppler radar, 040805, article from Journal of American Biology about a comparison of radar and acoustic measurements of bird density. Main finding is that acoustic measurements correlate poorly with actual bird numbers (i.e., acoustic measurements are not very useful for assessing risk). (pdf)
  
• Stateline Wind Project Avian Report, 2003-05. By WEST--finds annual mortality to be 1.7 birds/turbine, no individuals of any T&E species (federal or state) found. (pdf)
  
• Communication Towers: Deadly Hazard to Birds, 2000-06. American Bird Conservancy report with definitive statistics from 147 studies. (pdf)
  
• Bat Study - Minnesota - Summer 2001, 2002-0715. Very short, concise summary of findings of WEST study. This references an incomplete summary of an unpublished study that summarizes available mortality findings. (pdf)
  

Wind Energy Companies

International Wind Energy Associations