Birds and wind farms/climate change

[Michael Szabo]

Painting one wind turbine blade black has shown promise for preventing bird collisions. Now US researchers are field testing this surprisingly simple modification: https://www.audubon.org/magazine/surpri ... t-test-yet

[Michael Szabo]

"New Australian research using satellite imagery to monitor the location of Emperor Penguin colonies in East Antarctica, shows the birds are struggling to adapt to rapid changes in their environment.

Australian Antarctic Division seabird researcher, Dr Barbara Wienecke, said that for nearly one million years emperor penguins have responded to changes in their favoured breeding habitat, the Antarctic fast-ice* zone, moving to new locations if their chosen area becomes unsuitable.

But recent untimely loss of their fast-ice habitat and record low sea-ice extent in 2022 and 2023, has led to breeding failure in some colonies."

Link: https://www.antarctica.gov.au/news/2024 ... o-survive/