Bird on the wire: Landscape planning considering costs and benefits for bird populations coexisting with power lines

M D'Amico, I Catry, RC Martins, F Ascensao… - Ambio, 2018 - Springer
… benefits for avifauna coexisting with power lines. Overall, we … about the actual effects of power
lines on bird populations. This … of benefits for bird populations coexisting with power lines. …

Adverse impacts of wind power generation on collision behaviour of birds and anti-predator behaviour of squirrels

R Kikuchi - Journal for Nature Conservation, 2008 - Elsevier
… of birds and the anti-predator behaviour of squirrels. The purpose of this paper is not to
criticise wind power … ; breadth and depth of the flock; and, the birds flying behind others have a …

Impact of renewable energy sources on birds of prey

JF Dwyer, MA Landon, EK Mojica - Birds of Prey: Biology and conservation …, 2018 - Springer
… Alternatively, in both active and standby positions, warm air rising above collection towers
may attract buteos and vultures seeking thermal air currents to power flight, and these birds

Influence of behavior on bird mortality in wind energy developments

KS Smallwood, L Rugge… - The Journal of Wildlife …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
bird entering the study plot and continuously followed it until it left the plot. We recorded
species, number of birds in a flock… the sum of the MW of rated power outputs for all of the wind …

Bird collisions with power lines: State of the art and priority areas for research

J Bernardino, K Bevanger, R Barrientos, JF Dwyer… - Biological …, 2018 - Elsevier
birds. We performed a systematic review of the literature available on bird collisions with
power … conditions, and anthropogenic disturbance), and power line-specific factors (eg number …

The flocking of birds with particular reference to the association of small insectivorous birds

KA Hindwood - Emu-Austral Ornithology, 1937 - Taylor & Francis
… South Wales Birds flock or … birds is brought about by environmental conditions, perhaps
restricted breeding areas or a concentrated: food supply, and is in no way controlled by the birds

Ecological aspects of some mixed‐species foraging flocks of birds

DH Morse - Ecological monographs, 1970 - Wiley Online Library
… to define a flock as treated in this paper. Any group of two or more birds, whose formation …
their own or other species is considered a flock. This represents a slight modification of Hinde's …

Trait–environment relationships differ between mixed‐species flocking and nonflocking bird assemblages

Q Zhang, M Holyoak, E Goodale, Z Liu, Y Shen, J Liu… - Ecology, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
… processes between flocking and nonflocking bird assemblages… We found that the flocking
and nonflocking bird assemblages … explanatory power for SES.MPD than for SES.MFD (Radj 2 …

Particle swarm optimization solution to emission and economic dispatch problem

AIS Kumar, K Dhanushkodi, JJ Kumar… - … 2003. Conference on …, 2003 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… fuel power plants, can … bird flocking and fish schooling and it utilizes a population based
search procedure. According to the research results, for a flock of birds, birds find food by flocking

Particle swarm optimization applications to mechanical engineering-A review

MNK Kulkarni, MS Patekar, MT Bhoskar… - Materials Today …, 2015 - Elsevier
… inspired by social behaviour of bird flocking or fish schooling. … tip distance followed by the
power requirement, cutting speed and … the work output of the power plant as well as the specific …