Bird on the wire: Landscape planning considering costs and benefits for bird populations coexisting with power lines

M D'Amico, I Catry, RC Martins, F Ascensao… - Ambio, 2018 - Springer
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 …

Bird collisions with power lines: Prioritizing species and areas by estimating potential population‐level impacts

M D'Amico, RC Martins… - Diversity and …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Power lines can represent an important source of bird mortality through collision. The
identification of more susceptible species, in terms of expected population‐level impacts …

High bird mortality due to power lines invokes urgent environmental mitigation in a tropical desert

M Uddin, S Dutta, V Kolipakam, H Sharma… - Biological …, 2021 - Elsevier
Electricity supply lines through wildlife habitats can adversely affect biodiversity, yet lack of
evidence impedes their mitigation in tropical develo** countries. We assessed power line …

Drivers of power line use by white storks: a case study of birds nesting on anthropogenic structures

F Moreira, RC Martins, I Catry… - Journal of Applied …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Anthropogenic structures are mainly known to have negative impacts on wildlife populations
but they can be beneficial. Power lines are a main driver of bird mortality through collision or …

[HTML][HTML] Long-term management practices successfully reduce bird-related electrical faults in a transmission grid increasingly used by white storks for nesting

F Moreira, RC Martins, FF Aguilar, A Canhoto… - Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Bird nests on transmission lines can cause electrical faults which reduce service reliability.
To address this problem, since the mid-90s, the Portuguese Transmission System Operator …

Documenting and reducing avian electrocutions in Hungary: a conservation contribution from citizen scientists

I Demeter, M Horváth, K Nagy… - The Wilson Journal …, 2018 - meridian.allenpress.com
Electrocutions of birds on power structures is a global conservation concern that has not
been thoroughly reported in all areas where it occurs. Here we provide information from …

Effects of overhead power‐lines on the density of ground‐nesting birds in open sub‐arctic habitats

AE Pálsdóttir, JA Gill, S Pálsson, JA Alves, V Méndez… - Ibis, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Yearly electricity production has increased steadily worlwide in recent decades and the
associated overhead power lines are widespread and occur across urban and natural …

Flight altitudes of a soaring bird suggest landfill sites as power line collision hotspots

J Marcelino, F Moreira, AMA Franco… - Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Anthropogenic structures are increasingly encroaching wildlife habitats, creating conflicts
between humans and animals. Scaling up renewable energy requires new infrastructures …

[HTML][HTML] Disentangling drivers of power line use by vultures: Potential to reduce electrocutions

M García-Alfonso, T van Overveld, L Gangoso… - Science of the Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
Accidents on power lines are the leading cause of mortality for many raptor species. In order
to prioritise corrective measures, much effort has been focused on identifying the factors …

[PDF][PDF] Changes in the nest sites of white stork (Ciconia ciconia) in Hungary

A Gyalus, Z VéGVári, T Csörgő - 2018 - sciendo.com
The breeding strategies of the White Stork changed drastically during the past decades: a
decreasing number of individuals nest on traditional nest sites–trees, roofs, chimneys …