Wind energy development represents significant challenges and opportunities in
contemporary wildlife management. Such challenges include the large size and extensive …

Transmission and distribution electricity grids are expanding rapidly worldwide, with
significant negative impacts on biodiversity and, in particular, on birds. We performed a …

Birds of prey have been, in comparison to other avian groups, an uncommon study model,
mainly due to the limitations imposed by their conservative life strategy (low population …

Many large terrestrial and wetland birds and some smaller, fast-flying species are prone to
colliding with overhead wires associated with power infrastructure. A high proportion of …

The growth of energy consumption demands a large expansion of transmission line (TL)
networks worldwide. The reduction of the environmental impacts of these infrastructures will …

Bustards comprise a highly threatened family of birds and, being relatively fast, heavy fliers
with very limited frontal visual fields, are particularly susceptible to mortality at powerlines …

This book examines current knowledge on the evolution, ecology, and conservation biology
of both New World vultures (Cathartidae) and Old World vultures (Accipitridae). Extinct …

The Overberg wheatbelt population of Blue Cranes Anthropoides paradiseus in the Western
Cape of South Africa is approximately half the global population of this vulnerable species …

Power-line grids are increasingly expanding worldwide, as well as their negative impacts on
avifauna, namely the direct mortality through collision and electrocution, the reduction of …

Birds are vulnerable to collisions with human-made fixed structures. Despite ongoing
development and increases in infrastructure, we have few estimates of the magnitude of …