Seabirds & offshore wind farms: Monitoring results 2008

• Main Authors: Vanermen, N., Stienen, E.W.M.
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: 2009
• Subjects: Bird flying; Collision parameters; Impacts; Marine birds; Methodology; Migrations; Monitoring; Population density; Risks; Species composition; Wind turbines; Fulmaris glacialis; Gavia stellata (Pontoppidan; 1763); Larus canus Linnaeus; 1758 [Common gull]; Podiceps cristatus (Linnaeus; 1758) [Great crested grebe]; Rissa tridactyla (Linnaeus; 1758); Stercorarius skua (Brünnich; 1764) [great skua]; ANE; Belgium; Hinder Banks; Oosthinder; Zeeland Banks; Thornton Bank; Thornton; Common tern; Great skua; Larus canus; rissa tridactyla; Stercorarius skua
• Online Access: http://www.vliz.be/nl/open-marien-archief?module=ref&refid=134402

In 2008, n.v. C-Power started up the construction of the first offshore wind farm at the Belgian Part of the North Sea (BPNS). This wind farm will be located on the shallows of the Thorntonbank, about fifteen nautical miles offshore. At the time of writing six windmills are erected of which two are...