NABU price quotes that in Germany a minimum of 1.5 million birds every year pass away after hitting medium and high-tension grid lines.
Big types, specifically skyrocketing birds like the Eastern Imperial Eagle ( Aquila heliaca), Saker Falcon ( Falco cherrug), White Stork ( Ciconia ciconia), and Eurasian Buzzard ( Buteo buteo) and numerous other types can be killed by electrical shocks on particular unsecured kinds of masts. The bird may be electrocuted by finishing an electrical circuit, at the same time touching 2 stimulated parts, or a stimulated part and a grounded part. This might occur when the bird for instance extends its wings and touches 2 wires.
Birds hit overhead lines when they stop working to see the cable televisions in time. Crashes are most likely to accompany the overhead fixed wire, which is less noticeable than stimulated lines due to its smaller sized size. Swans, other waterfowl, and big fast-flying birds are the most typical victims.
However all this can be prevented. In this brand-new research study, all the technical services offered are revealed and assessed. By following these standards, power lines can be an opponent of the past for birds. In a substantial variety of nations, NGOs and electrical business have actually signed up with forces to carry out safe practices with excellent success. They are a testament to how individuals and nature can grow together.
Developing bird safe powerlines is not just crucial to secure birds, however it is likewise more secure for business and human beings. Bird accidents and electrocuted birds can trigger power cuts, power blackouts, and begin fires throughout durations of dry spell.
The constant usage of the very best existing technical services, accompanied by legal commitments and control in all EU nations, allows the compatibility of bird security and the needed growth of the power facilities.
BirdLife gets in touch with the European Commission to establish technical requirements on how to prevent the electrocution and crash of safeguarded birds. These EU requirements would raise the political acknowledgment of the issue and increase the execution by the network operators. Many handy would be a consistent European requirement. A number of the procedures gathered can likewise quickly be executed on migratory paths in the Mediterranean or in African wintering locations.
Some insights of the research study
On the right: The shape of console prevents birds from taking a seat and at the exact same time, the perch uses a location to sit ( Source: AOPK CR)
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