Results Category: Grouse

Bats, Birds, Eagles, Grouse, Solar Report

Solar Energy Interactions with Wildlife and Their Habitats: A Summary of Research Results and Priority Questions

This summary reviews publicly available information about the adverse impacts and potential benefits of ground-mounted large scale - PV solar power on wildlife in North America.

Bats, Birds, Eagles, Grouse, Solar Report

National Solar Wildlife Research Plan 2023-2025

REWI has developed this National Solar Wildlife Research Plan outlining its strategic priorities and approach to solar-wildlife challenges and opportunities.

Grouse, Wind

Prairie Grouse and Wind Energy: The State of the Science And Implications for Risk Assessment

Behavioral changes are the most commonly reported effect of wind-energy development on populations of prairie grouse, but the long-term demographic consequences are uncertain.

Bats, Birds, Eagles, Grouse, Synthesis, Wind Report

Summary of Wind Power Interactions with Wildlife

This document summarizes publicly available information about the adverse impacts of land-based wind power on wildlife in North America and the status of our knowledge regarding how to avoid or minimize these impacts.

Grouse, Renewable Energy Wildlife Research Fund, Wind Report

Lesser Prairie-Chicken Response to Wind Energy

A study supported by the Wind Wildlife Research Fund investigates the effects of wind energy infrastructure on lesser prairie-chickens over three years at a wind energy facility in Kansas.

Bats, Birds, Eagles, Grouse, Wind Report

National Wind Wildlife Research Plan 2020-2023

This updated Plan is a refresh of the 2017 document and identifies priority areas of research in 2020-2023 to achieve key outcomes for wind energy development and wildlife conservation.

Grouse, NWCC, Wind Report

Behavioral Response of Grouse to Wind Turbines

This meta-analysis reviewed studies that evaluated the effect of wind energy facilities on grouse. The objective was to determine the magnitude of effects of wind turbines on grouse habitat selection, lek attendance, and survival at various distances from wind turbines.

Bats, Birds, Eagles, Grouse, Offshore, Synthesis, Wind JOURNAL ARTICLE

Impacts to Wildlife of Wind Energy Siting and Operation in the U.S.

This report provides provides a peer-reviewed synthesis of current, accurate, and properly contextualized information about the benefits of wind energy, adverse wind-wildlife impacts, efforts to find solutions, and recommended focus for future research.

Bats, Birds, Eagles, Grouse, Wind Tool

Wind Documents Library

The Wind-Wildlife Documents Library is a searchable database of publicly available literature and reports related to wind energy and wildlife in North America.

Grouse, NWCC, Wind Fact Sheet

Greater Sage-Grouse Fact Sheet: Overview and Effects of Wind Energy Development

This fact sheet provides an overview of knowledge on greater sage-grouse ecology, status, conservation challenges, and current conservation efforts, and presents a summary of recent research findings on the interactions between sage-grouse and wind energy development.