WOLFE ISLAND WIND FARM ~ BIRD & BAT POST CONSTRUCTION ~ MONITORING REPORT

Richard Blackwell
From Thursday's Globe and Mail
Published on Wednesday, Jun. 09, 2010 9:34PM EDT

.602 birds and 1,270 bats were killed by the turbines over that stretch. While the report says the numbers of dead birds and bats are similar to other wind farms in North America, Ottawa-based environmental advocacy group Nature Canada says the figures are actually surprisingly large and represent a significant threat to several endangered species.

“The monitoring reveals shockingly high numbers of fatalities of both birds and bats,” said Ted Cheskey, manager of bird conservation programs at Nature Canada. He said the figures underline what his organization has been arguing all along, that “there should not be wind turbines put in important bird areas or migratory corridors.”


WOLFE ISLAND ~WIND FARM~ BIRD AND BAT POST CONSTRUCTION MONITORING REPORT ~ July December 2009