Long Term Bird and Bat Study for 200 Mw Wind Farm at Aspari Village, Kurnool District, Andhra Pradesh, India
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MYTRAH VAYU TUNGABHADRA PRIVATE LIMITED FINAL REPORT LONG TERM BIRD AND BAT STUDY FOR 200 MW WIND FARM AT ASPARI VILLAGE, KURNOOL DISTRICT, ANDHRA PRADESH, INDIA JUNE 2016 Submitted by VOYANTS SOLUTIONS PVT. LTD. 403, 4th Floor, BPTP Park Centra, Sector - 30, NH-8, Gurgaon - 122001 Phone - 0124-4598 200, Telefax - 0124-4019051 E-mail – [email protected], www.voyants.in Long Term Bird and Bat Study of 200 MW Wind Farm at Village Aspari, District Kurnool, Andhra Pradesh DRAFT BIRD AND BAT STUDY LONG TERM BIRD AND BAT SURVEY IN THE PROPOSED ASPARI WIND FARM SITE IN KURNOOL DISTRICT, ANDHRA PRADESH, INDIA. June 2016 Prepared by Voyants Solutions Private Limited for the Asian Development Bank. {GUR_EMS_1456 Draft Bird and bat_21.06.2016 originally posted on May, 2016 available on {http://www.adb.org/projects/ IND: Long term Bird and bat study of 200 MW Wind Farm Project in village Aspari, District Kurnool, Andhra Pradesh.} Long Term Bird and Bat Study of 200 MW Wind Farm at Village Aspari, District Kurnool, Andhra Pradesh DRAFT BIRD AND BAT STUDY NOTES (i) The fiscal year 2016-17 of the Government of India ends on March 31, 2017. (ii) In this report, "$" refers to US dollars. This Long term Bird and Bat study assessment is a document of the borrower. The views expressed herein do not necessarily represent those of ADB's Board of Directors, Management, or staff, and may be preliminary in nature. Your attention is directed to the “terms of use” section on ADB’s website. In preparing any country program or strategy, financing any project, or by making any designation of or reference to a particular territory or geographic area in this document, the Asian Development Bank does not intend to make any judgments as to the legal or other status of any territory or area. Page | ii Long Term Bird and Bat Study of 200 MW Wind Farm at Village Aspari, District Kurnool, Andhra Pradesh DRAFT BIRD AND BAT STUDY TABLE OF CONTENTS EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ......................................................................................................................... I 1 INTRODUCTION ........................................................................................................................... 1 1.1 PROJECT DETAILS AND PROJECT PROPONENT ................................................................................ 1 1.2 BACKGROUND OF BIRD AND BAT MONITORING STUDY .............................................................. 1 1.3 OBJECTIVES ....................................................................................................................................................... 2 1.4 SCOPE OF WORK ............................................................................................................................................. 2 1.5 BIRD AND BAT MONITORING PLAN ....................................................................................................... 2 1.6 LIMITATION OF STUDY ................................................................................................................................ 2 1.7 REPORT STRUCTURE .................................................................................................................................... 3 2 STUDY AREA ................................................................................................................................. 4 2.1 PROJECT SITE/STUDY AREA ..................................................................................................................... 4 2.2 BIOGEOGRAPHIC SETTINGS ...................................................................................................................... 7 2.3 CLIMATOLOGICAL SETTING: ..................................................................................................................... 8 3 APPROACH AND METHODOLOGY ......................................................................................... 9 4 OBSERVATION AND ANALYSIS ............................................................................................ 12 4.1 CARCASS SURVEYS ...................................................................................................................................... 43 5 POTENTIAL IMPACTS & MITIGATION MEASURES ........................................................ 45 5.1 Potential Detrimental Effects of wind turbines on birds and bats: ......................................... 45 5.2 POTENTIAL BIRD AND BAT IMPACT FOR ASPARI SITE ............................................................. 46 5.3 MITIGATION MEASURES SUGGESTED ................................................................................................ 49 6 CLOSURE ..................................................................................................................................... 52 REFERENCES ............................................................................................................................................ i CONSULTANT DISCLOSURE .............................................................................................................. iv Page | iii Long Term Bird and Bat Study of 200 MW Wind Farm at Village Aspari, District Kurnool, Andhra Pradesh DRAFT BIRD AND BAT STUDY LIST OF TABLES TABLE 3-1: VANTAGE POINT DETAILS ........................................................................................................ 10 TABLE 4-1: LIST OF BAT SPECIES RECORDED FROM KURNOOL DISTRICT .................................................. 12 TABLE 4-2: LIST OF BIRD SPECIES RECORDED FROM KURNOOL DISTRICT ................................................. 14 TABLE 4-3: LIST OF BAT SPECIES SIGHTED AND RECORDED IN THE STUDY AREA ..................................... 26 TABLE 4-4: LIST OF BIRD SPECIES SIGHTED AND RECORDED IN THE STUDY AREA .................................... 26 TABLE 4-5: LIST OF IDENTIFIED SPECIES OF CONCERN BASED ON HIGHER THREAT CATEGORIES OF CONSERVATION AND MIGRATION STATUS ........................................................................................ 34 TABLE 4-6: CATEGORISATION OF BAT AND BIRDS SPECIES OF CONCERN INCLUDING MIGRATORY SPECIES OF CONCERN BASED ON FLYING CAPACITY .......................................................................... 40 TABLE 4-7: CARCASS IN THE STUDY AREA .................................................................................................. 43 TABLE 5-1: SCREENING OF CRITICALLY ENDANGERED AND ENDANGERED SPECIES LISTED IN THE THREE SPECIES GRIDS AROUND ASPARI IN IBAT TOOL .................................................................................. 47 LIST OF FIGURES FIGURE 2-1: LOCATION MAP OF THE PROJECT AREA .................................................................................. 5 FIGURE 2-2: STUDY AREA MAP OF THE PROJECT AREA ............................................................................... 6 FIGURE 2-3: PHYSIOGRAPHIC SETTING OF THE STUDY AREA ..................................................................... 8 FIGURE 4-1: BAT SPECIES DIVERSITY RECORDED FROM KURNOOL DISTRICT ........................................... 14 FIGURE 4-2: BIRD SPECIES DIVERSITY RECORDED IN KURNOOL DISTRICT ................................................. 25 FIGURE 4-3: BAT SPECIES DIVERSITY RECORDED IN STUDY AREA ............................................................. 26 FIGURE 4-4: BIRD SPECIES DIVERSITY RECORDED IN STUDY AREA ............................................................ 32 FIGURE 4-5: PERCENTAGE POPULATION OF SPECIES OF CONCERN IN THE STUDY AREA ......................... 33 FIGURE 4-6: PERCENTAGE POPULATION OF MIGRATORY BIRDS IN THE STUDY AREA.............................. 33 FIGURE 4-7: FLYING CAPACITY OF SPECIES INCLUDING MIGRATORY SPECIES OF CONCERN .................... 43 FIGURE 4-8: CARCASS IN THE STUDY AREA ................................................................................................ 44 FIGURE 5-1: SCHEMATIC REPRESENTATION OF HIGH RISK ZONE.............................................................. 46 List of Annexures ANNEXURE I : Photolog of avifauna sited during site visit Page | iv Long Term Bird and Bat Study of 200 MW Wind Farm at Village Aspari, District Kurnool, Andhra Pradesh DRAFT BIRD AND BAT STUDY EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Mytrah Vayu (Tungabhadra) Private Limited (MVTPL) proposes to develop a wind farm of 200 MW capacities at Aspari village, Kurnool District, Andhra Pradesh. The proposed wind farm will consist of installation of 97 Wind Turbine Generators (WTG) of different capacities. The present long term bird and bat survey was undertaken to study the potential impact of wind turbines on bat and avifauna population of the proposed project site area. The total area required for the project is approximately 494 acres. The proposed project is spread over 12 revenue villages of Aluru and Pattikonda Taluka. The land identified for the proposed project site is primarily undulating and mix of single cropped agricultural and barren land. The core zone is mostly single crop land but the buffer zone up to 10 km is predominantly agricultural land interspersed with isolated patches of sparse vegetation and without crop of rocky boulders. The major observations of the present survey are: i. 24 bats species and 164 bird species are recorded in the whole Kurnool district as per the publically available data. As per the IUCN Criteria the entire mentioned bat species fall under the criteria of Least Concern whereas 5 bird species belong to “Critically Endangered” and 3 species belong to “Endangered”