Developing an efficient protocol for monitoring eagle fatalities at wind energy facilities.

ABSTRACT: Researchers typically conduct fatality monitoring to determine a wind energy facility's direct impacts on wildlife. In the United States, wind energy impacts on eagles have received increased attention in recent years because eagle incidental take permits became available. Permit holders are required to conduct fatality monitoring to evaluate compliance with permitted eagle take. Our objective was to develop an efficient eagle fatality monitoring protocol with a quantifiable detection probability based on a stationary scanning search method. We conducted scanning searches for eagle carcasses at four wind energy facilities. We estimated searcher efficiency of the scanning search method using feathered turkey decoys as eagle carcass surrogates, used publicly available data on large raptor ca

SUBMITTER: Hallingstad EC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6291117 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature