Bat mortality has been reported at industrial scale wind facilities across North America, with tree-roosting bats accounting for most fatalities, but no data exist for central Canada. We quantified rates of mortality at a wind energy facility in Manitoba, Canada by conducting standardized carcass searches corrected for searcher efficiency and scavenging from mid-August to mid-September 2007. We found that mortality was consistent with, but qualitatively higher than that at comparable wind facilities in western Canada. Mortality of the species most commonly killed, Silver-haired Bats, was evenly distributed across the wind facility, but mortality of Hoary and Eastern Red Bats was higher at some turbines than others.
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1 December 2012
Bat Mortality at a Wind Power Facility in Central Canada
Joel W. Jameson,
Craig K. R. Willis
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Northwestern Naturalist
Vol. 93 • No. 3
Winter 2012
Vol. 93 • No. 3
Winter 2012
Bat
Lasionycteris noctivagans
Lasiurus borealis
Lasiurus cinereus
migration
mortality
turbine