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- Title
BAT MORTALITY AT A WIND POWER FACILITY IN CENTRAL CANADA.
- Authors
JAMESON, JOEL W.; WILLIS, CRAIG KR
- Abstract
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.
- Subjects
MANITOBA; CANADA; BAT mortality; EASTERN red bat; WIND power; ANIMAL species; QUALITATIVE research; DATA analysis
- Publication
Northwestern Naturalist, 2012, Vol 93, Issue 3, p194
- ISSN
1051-1733
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1898/12-03.1