Wildlife and Wind Farms – Conflicts and Solutions: Onshore: Potential Effects

... the editor and the more than 50 authors have made a substantial effort to review current knowledge, which goes a long way to meeting the need for a comprehensive global reference on the subject. -- Henrik Skov * Conservation Biology * ...this is the must read book for everybody interested in wind farms and wildlife, which will be the next step in our better understanding of relationships between renewable energy, wildlife and the environment. -- Wieslaw Bogdanowicz * Acta Chiropterologica * These two books are a major step towards consolidating our current knowledge of potential impacts of wind farms on wildlife, and options for monitoring and mitigation. Coherent structures for each chapter provide easy navigation, and liberal decoration with case studies, figures, tables and photographs, means that the expansive content is easily digestible. A minor quibble may be that volume 2 focuses almost entirely on birds and bats, after laying some important groundwork for other under-studied taxa in volume 1, but as acknowledged, this reflects where most focus has been directed. The call for greater study on population-level monitoring and cumulative effects echoes those of other recent reviews, such as the publication of presentations from the Conference on Wind Energy and Wildlife Impacts held in Berlin in 2015 (Köppel 2017), which are among the most challenging of aspects to study but are essential to consider. The Editor and the many authors of chapters and cases studies should be congratulated on this important contribution to the field. The next two offshore volumes are highly anticipated. -- Chris Thaxter * BTO Bird Study * Volume 1 engages with 40 leading researchers to provide a basis for discussion of the potential effects of wind farms on wildlife. Illustrations are used to help the reader understand the complexity of the technology, color images shared by the wildlife experts help to connect the reader on an emotional level and the extensive bibliography at the end of each chapter provides the student and professional the opportunity to delve further into each topic. This book is well researched and does a great job of explaining the information we have about the potential effects of wind farms on wildlife. -- Rob Mies * Organization for Bat Conservation * ... the best currently available synthesis of knowledge regarding impacts of onshore wind farms on birds. It is an obligatory read for all interested in the subject of wind energy–bird interactions. * Acta Ornithologica *