Conference on Wind energy and Wildlife impacts Book of Abstracts 6-8 September 2017 | Estoril - Portugal Contents 1 Keynote Speakers 15 1.1 Day 1 - September 6, 2017 ........................ 15 Teresa Simas, Offshore wind: current challenges for sustainable development 15 Manuela Huso, Wind Wildlife Fatality: How we know what we know and how we might mislead ourselves...................... 16 1.2 Day 2 - September 7, 2017 ........................ 17 Roel May, Mitigating impacts of wind energy facilities on wildlife...... 17 Fabien Qu´etier, Compensation: designing and implementing biodiversity off- sets for wind energy projects...................... 18 Daniel Skambracks, “Wind Energy, Wildlife Impacts and Banks” - How banks can promote sustainable Wind Energy development.......... 20 Johann Koppel¨ , A pioneer in transition: A horizon scan of emerging issues in sustainable wind energy development................. 21 2 Oral Presentations 23 2.1 Day 1 - September 6, 2017 ........................ 23 2.1.1 Parallel Session 1: Species behaviour — Offshore I .......... 23 Stefan Hein¨anen and Henrik Skov, Detection of seabird displacement from offshore windfarms in a highly dynamic environment - using simulations for assessing number of surveys required............... 23 Ramunas Zydelis; Stefan Heinanen; Georg Nehls; Monika Dorsch; Petra Quillfeldt; Julius Morkunas, Large displacement of red-throated divers by offshore wind farms revealed by telemetry and digital aerial surveys...... 25 Gillian Lye; Kate Grellier; Emily Nelson; Ross McGregor; Nancy McLean, Re- sponses of marine top predators to an offshore wind farm: a cross-taxon comparison............................... 27 Miriam Brandt; Ansgar Diederichs; Anne-Cecile Dragon; Veronika Wahl; Chris- tian Ketzer; Alexander Braasch; Werner Piper, Assessing disturbance of harbour porpoises during construction of the first seven commercial offshore wind farms in Germany.................... 28 2 Claudia Burger; Georg Nehls; Monika Dorsch; Birgit Kleinschmidt; Ramunas¯ Zydelis;ˇ Stefan Hein¨anen; Julius Morkunas;¯ Petra Quillfeldt, From ef- fects to impacts: analysing displacement of Red-throated divers from offshore wind farms in relation to their wintering home ranges.... 30 2.1.2 Parallel Session 2: Species behaviour — Onshore I .......... 31 Naoya Nishibayashi; Wataru Kitamura, A comparison between mountain hawk- eagle’s home range of before construction wind energy facility and during construction.......................... 31 Gonc¸aloCosta; Francisco Petrucci-Fonseca; Francisco Alvares´ , 15 years of wolf monitoring plans at wind farm areas in Portugal: what do we know? Where should we go?......................... 33 Pavel Zehtindjiev; Victor Vasilev; Martin P. Marinov; Mihaela Ilieva; Strahil Peev; Dimitar Dimitrov; Ivaylo Raykov; Veselina Raykova; Karina Ivanova; Kiril Bedev; Yanko Yankov, No evidence for displacement of wintering Red-breasted geese (Branta ruficollis) at wind farms area in northeast Bulgaria: long term monitoring result................. 35 Sindre Eftestøl; Jonathan Colman; Diress Tsegaye; Kjetil Flydal, Wind power plants and reindeer - a synthesis of results from six study areas in Norway 37 Ana Teresa Marques; Carlos David Santos; Frank Hanssen; Antonio-Rom´an Munoz;˜ Martin Wikelski; Francisco Moreira; Jorge Palmeirim; Jo˜ao Paulo Silva, Wind turbines cause functional habitat loss in migratory soaring birds: results from a gps tracking study with black kites... 38 2.1.3 Parallel Session 3: Fatality assessment ................ 40 Sjoerd Dirksen; Suzanne Lubbe; Maarten Platteeuw, Collision fatalities amongst birds at offshore wind farms: why real field monitoring should validate models................................. 40 Craig Campbell; Ricardo Ramalho; Francisco Cervantes; Kirsten Retief; Joana Marques; Jo˜ao Paula; Tiago Neves; Miguel Mascarenhas; Lourens Leeuwner; Michael D. Michael, Using detection dogs in bat and bird carcass searches in a South Africa’s wind farms context: benefits and constraints............................... 42 3 Lu´ıs Rosa; Jo˜ao Paula; Miguel Mascarenhas, Camera-trapping as a method- ology in the assessment of carcass persistence, used in bird and bat fatality estimates at wind farms.................... 44 Alvaro Camina˜ , The use of detection distance of fatalities for the estimation of searcher efficiency and implications for calculations of fatality rates 46 Trent McDonald; Paul Rabie; Daniel Dalthorp; Danny Riser-Espinoza; Jared Studyvin; Jerry Roppe, Comparison of area correction methods for post-construction fatality monitoring studies............. 48 2.1.4 Parallel Session 4: Species behaviour — Offshore II ......... 49 Dave Thompson; Joe Onoufriou; William Patterson; Rachael Plunkett, Strate- gic post consent monitoring of breeding harbour seals at the Wash SAC 49 Marijke Warnas; Maarten Platteeuw; Suzanne Lubbe; Aylin Erkman; Martine Graafland; Ingeborg van Splunder; Inger van den Bosch; Joop Bakker; Maarten de Jong, Filling up the gaps: addressing knowledge gaps on ecological impacts of offshore wind farms in the Netherlands..... 51 Stephanie McGovern; Roger Buisson; Timothy Coppack; Mark Rehfisch, Dis- placement effects of offshore wind farms on Red-throated divers (Gavia stellata) relative to the effects of other human activities....... 53 Jesper Larsen; Sytske van den Akker; Jennifer Brack; Martin Goff; Birte Hansen; Gillian Sutherland, Evidence based tools to assess and miti- gate population level impacts of wind farm developments - the case of the DEPONS project.......................... 55 Katharina Fließbach; Bettina Mendel; Stefan Garthe, Cumulative habitat loss for sensitive seabirds resulting from offshore wind energy and shipping traffic and implications for Marine Spatial Planning.......... 57 2.1.5 Parallel Session 5: Species behaviour — Onshore II ......... 59 Gonc¸aloBrotas; L´ıgia Mendes; Jos´e Miguel Oliveira; Cindy Loureiro, The Iberian wolf and wind farm environmental impact assessment in Por- tugal - a review............................ 59 Ricardo Tom´e; Alexandre H. Leit˜ao; Nadine Pires; Filipe Can´ario, Inter- and intra-specific variation in avoidance behaviour at different scales in migratory soaring birds......................... 61 4 Sachiko Moriguchi; Haruka Mukai; Ryosuke Komachiand Tsuneo Sekijima, Wind farm effects on migration flight of swans and foraging distribution at their stopover site.......................... 63 Torgeir Nyg˚ard; Espen Lie dahl; Øystein Flagstad; Ulla Falkdalen; B˚ard Gunnar Stokke; Roel May, Where eagles dare: understanding collision risks, behavioural patterns and population impacts of white-tailed eagles at Smøla Windfarm, Norway....................... 64 2.1.6 Parallel Session 6: Species fatality and vulnerability ......... 66 Stavros Xirouchakis; Efi Armeni; Stamatina Nikolopoulou; John Halley, Esti- mating the potential mortality of griffon vultures (Gyps fulvus) due to wind energy development on the island of Crete (Greece)...... 66 Samantha Ralston-Paton; Jon Smallie; Andrew Pearson; Ricardo Ramalho, How birds have been affected by some of the first wind farms in South Africa................................. 67 Filipe Can´ario; Alexandre H. Leit˜ao; Nadine Pires; Ricardo Tom´e, Vulnerability index for Western Palearctic soaring birds regarding wind farms placed on migration flyways.......................... 68 Aly McCluskie; Staffan Roos; Alex Sansom, A circus of uncertainty: collision risk and hen harriers, Circus cyaneus ................. 70 Oliver Behr; Martina Nagy; Robert Brinkmann; Klaus Hochradel; Jurgen¨ Mages; Andreas Naucke; Ivo Niermann; Ralph Simon; Natalie We- ber; Fr¨anzi Korner-Nievergelt, Accounting for regional bat phenology and turbine characteristics significantly improves models that predict bat collisions at wind turbines..................... 72 2.2 Day 2 - September 7, 2017 ........................ 74 2.2.1 Parallel Session 7: Mitigation ..................... 74 Michael Schirmacher; Alex Prichard; Todd Mabee; Cris Hein, Multi-year oper- ational minimization study in West Virginia: potential novel strategy to reducing bat fatalities at wind turbines............... 74 Joana Santos; Lu´ıs Rosa; Miguel Mascarenhas, Mitigation strategies & effec- tiveness - the Candeeiros wind farm monitoring and mitigation program case study............................... 76 5 Teresa Saraiva, Efficiency of RADAR-assisted wind turbines selective stop Pro- grams on migratory routes in SW Portugal.............. 79 Amanda Hale; Victoria J. Bennett; Christina R. Bienz; Ryan S. Conley; Bren- ton G. Cooper; Aaron M. McAlexander, Could the smooth surfaces of tower monopoles be a contributing factor to bat fatalities at wind turbines?................................ 81 B˚ard Stokke; Roel May; Ulla Falkdalen; Stein Are Sæther; Jens Astr˚ om;¨ Øyvind Hamre; Torgeir Nyg˚ard, Visual mitigation measures to reduce bird collisions - experimental tests at the Smøla wind-power plant, Norway................................. 83 2.2.2 Parallel Session 8: Impact monitoring & Risk assessment I ...... 85 Janine Aschwanden; Felix Liechti, Combining radar measurements and carcass searches: Number of bird fatalities and relation to migration intensity at a wind farm in a mountainous area................. 85 Jerry Roppe; Amy Parsons; Paul Rabie; Wally Erickson, Wildlife Monitoring and Reporting System using Operations and Maintenance Personnel: 5-year Assessment........................... 87 Bertrand Delprat, Red Kite collision risk objectivities, an issue for wind project acceptance............................... 89 Asaf