The $3 million study found that sea birds displayed avoidance behavior from 40 to 160 meters from the tips of rotor blades.
The study conducted to better understand seabird flight behavior in an offshore wind farm gathered extensive data on seabird flying, according to European Offshore Wind Deployment Center."This is the first time that any kind of bird species has been studied this closely and in detail at an offshore wind farm. And these birds are really good at avoiding the turbines. Now we need studies on more varieties," said Henrik Skov, project lead.
Vattenfall was able to identify seabird species, produce a three-dimensional depiction of their flight patterns, and understand how they avoid the rotor blades of offshore wind turbines by fusing radar data with cameras. Vattenfall claims the model can and should be applied to more varieties of seabirds as well as to onshore wind farms, even though the study only focused on four bird species.The study's conclusions are supported by the study's video data, which consists of 10,000 footage of birds flying through the Aberdeen Offshore Wind Farm.
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