Birds of Prey and Wind Farms

1. Research Issues and Aims of the Study
Hermann Hötker

2. Project Structure and Methodological Approach
Hermann Hötker

3. Red Kite
Kerstin Mammen, Ubbo Mammen, Alexander Resetaritz

4. Telemetric Monitoring of Montagu’s Harrier in Schleswig-Holstein
Bodo Grajetzky, Georg Nehls

5. Impacts of Wind Turbines on the Population and Nest Site Selection of the Montagu’s Harrier in the Hellweg Börde, North Rhine-Westphalia
Ralf Joest, Bastian Griesenbrock, Hubertus Illner

6. Impacts of Wind Turbines on the Population and Nest Site Selection of the Montagu’s Harrier in North Frisia
Leonid Rasran, Kai-Michael Thomsen

7. Satellite Tracking of White-Tailed Sea Eagles in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Brandenburg
Oliver Krone, Gabriele Treu, Thomas Grünkorn

8. Behavioural Observations of White-Tailed Sea Eagles in the Vicinity of Wind Turbines
Thomas Grünkorn, Mirjam Gippert, Gabriele Treu, Georg Nehls

9. Effects of Individuals Lost Due to Wind Turbines on the Time of Occupying a Territory, the Survival of Breeding Territories and the Breeding Success of White-Tailed Sea Eagles (Case Studies)
Thomas Grünkorn, Georg Nehls

10. Distances Between Breeding Sites and White-Tailed Sea Eagles Found Dead Near Wind Turbines in Schleswig-Holstein
Thomas Grünkorn, Georg Nehls

11. White-Tailed Sea Eagle—Summary and Conclusions
Oliver Krone, Gabriele Treu, Thomas Grünkorn, Georg Nehls

12. Collisions of Birds of Prey with Wind Turbines—Analysis of the Circumstances
Leonid Rasran, Tobias Dürr

13. Collision Victims and Lattice Towers—Frequency of Collision, Breeding Population and Breeding Success of Birds of Prey in Two Wind Farms in Brandenburg
Tobias Dürr, Leonid Rasran

14. Calculation of the Probability of a Collision of Territorial Birds of Prey with Wind Turbines
Leonid Rasran, Bodo Grajetzky, Ubbo Mammen

15. Population Development and Breeding Success of Birds of Prey in Relation to the Development of Wind Energy Use in Germany
Leonid Rasran, Ubbo Mammen

16. Conclusions, Risk Assessment, Conflict Minimisation, Practical Recommendations, Need for Further Research
Hermann Hötker, Tobias Dürr, Bodo Grajetzky, Thomas Grünkorn, Ralf Joest, Oliver Krone, Kerstin Mammen, Ubbo Mammen, Georg Nehls, Leonid Rasran, Alexander Resetaritz, Gabriele Treu

Keywords: Energy, Renewable and Green Energy, Applied Ecology, Conservation Biology/Ecology, Animal Ecology, Nature Conservation