Migrating whooping cranes avoid wind turbines
Whooping cranes avoid wind turbines during migration, according to a recent study. Researchers monitored 57 whooping cranes (Grus americana) between 2010 and 2016 ...
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Wind energy company invests in California condor breeding
A wind energy company is working with federal wildlife managers to breed California condors as a proactive step to supplement any potential losses of the giant ...
Detection device reduces eagle deaths at wind farm
Detection devices using cameras and artificial intelligence algorithms can reduce eagle deaths around wind farms. “If [the device] calculates that the eagle is at ...
Wind turbines don’t out-boom prairie-chicken lek potential
The sound of wind turbines doesn’t put a damper on the nearby mating rituals of greater prairie-chickens in Nebraska. “In terms of what’s happening in that ...
JHU Press publishes new wildlife books
From topics such as the North American Model of Wildlife Conservation to conserving wildlife internationally, Johns Hopkins University Press will publish four new ...
Man smuggles live finches into JFK using hair curlers
U.S. customs officials say a man attempted to smuggle 34 live finches through John F. Kennedy International Airport earlier this week, stuffing the colorful finches ...
Newly discovered, Nevada toad faces uncertain future
Scientists described a new toad species in Nevada last month, an act they hope will protect the toad from a proposed power plant that they fear could destroy its ...
Tortoise advocates and solar farms compete for desert land
Wildlife conservationists and renewable energy proponents may share large-scale environmental goals, but they are butting heads over the fate of the California ...
How prairie birds respond to wind turbines
While several studies have highlighted the direct impact of renewable energy infrastructure on North American birds — think birds colliding with turbines, for ...
Where do the bats killed by turbines come from?
Genetic and isotope detective work is revealing the mysteries of where some of the bat species most often killed by wind turbines come from. “These are an ...