Final results of bird studies at the offshore wind farms at Nysted and Horns Rev, Denmark. Petersen, I., K., Christensen, T., K., Kahlert, J., Desholm, M., & Fox, A., D. Technical Report 2006.
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Summary This report presents data on monitoring investigations of birds carried out during 1999-2005 in relation to the construction of the world’s first two large offshore wind farms at Horns Rev and Nysted in Denmark. We consider the hazards turbines posed to birds and the physical and ecological effects that these cause. We propose a series of hypotheses relating to these effects on birds at the two sites, testing to see if birds do in- deed show reactions to the turbines once erected, rela- tive to their “unaffected” behaviour we monitored during pre-construction baseline studies. In this way, the effects of the construction of the wind farms at sea could be predicted from our hypotheses and validated by post construction monitoring and data collection which was a condition of planning permission for the Danish projects. Throughout, we have restricted our studies primarily to waterbirds, because these are the species that exploit the offshore environment in gen- eral and the two study areas in particular, because Denmark has a special responsibility for the mainte- nance of their populations and the habitat that they use and because long lived birds with relatively low an- nual breeding success (which include many water- birds) are those most susceptible to additional mortal- ity. This does not mean that other species (such as many bird of prey and short-lived land birds that pass through the areas on migration) are not important, but their study was generally beyond the scope of these investigations.
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