Intro
The range of bat fatalities predicted at wind projects in the US in 2012.
What is 600,000-888,000?
The number of turbines searched by both humans and humans with dogs.
What is 32?
The number of bats and birds found by dogs at Golden Hills.
What is 71 bats and 63 birds?
The main method for estimating bat fatalities at wind turbines to date.
What are human searches?
Peak activity of migration for birds and bats in this study.
What is September through November?
The number of bats and birds found by human searchers at Golden Hills.
What are 0 and 11?
The percentage decline in avifauna in North America in the last 50 years.
What is 29%?
The radius searched around wind turbines at Golden Hills.
What is 105m?
Percentage of trial bats and birds found by dogs at Golden Hills.
What is 100% and 84%?
Sources used to estimate nationwide bat and bird fatalities are confounded by these two factors.
What are low carcass detection rates by human searchers and long intervals between searches?
Transects were placed in this way with regards to the direction of the wind, and were spaced this far apart.
The difference between dogs and human searchers when it came to finding bats and birds at Golden Hills.
What is 71-fold and 4-fold?
What are searching to a radius that includes the majority of carcasses, searching along transects that are spaced closer together, searching more frequently, and searching with dogs.
The method used to test visual occlusion.
What is human placement of trial carcasses were accompanied by counting of paces from three directions until they couldn't see the carcass?
The amount increase of bat and bird fatalities reported by using dogs.
What is 6.4 times for bats and 2.7 times for small birds?