Testing pole barriers as feasible mitigation measure to avoid bird vehicle collisions (BVC).

Numbers of bird vehicle collisions (BVCs) exceed several millions per year per country in Europe and North America. However, in contrast with the advances achieved in reducing road kills in mammals, few mitigation measures have been developed to reduce BVCs. Following this line, pole barriers have emerged as a cheap and effective measure to reduce bird mortality. We experimentally tested pole barriers in three different scenarios. First, we used trained raptors to test the effect of poles on their behaviour. We were unable to show that pole barrier was a good measure per se to prevent forest raptors crossing, but the results are promising when combining the poles with coloured flag elements. Second, we considered a corridor used for water birds to move from the feeding to the resting sites. The results showed that almost all birds (93.9%) shift the flight path to avoid poles. Only 17 birds of four different species …

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Zuberogoitia I. del Real J. Torres J.J. Rodríguez L. Alonso M. de Alba V. Azahara C. y Zabala J. Testing pole barriers as feasible mitigation measure to avoid bird vehicle collisions (BVC). Elsevier, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoleng.2015.06.026

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Date of creation 2025-05-23
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Name of the dataset creator Zuberogoitia, I., del Real, J., Torres, J.J., Rodríguez, L., Alonso, M., de Alba, V., Azahara, C. y Zabala, J.
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