{"id":765,"date":"2014-03-26T18:33:43","date_gmt":"2014-03-26T23:33:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=765"},"modified":"2014-04-03T09:18:15","modified_gmt":"2014-04-03T14:18:15","slug":"migrating-golden-eagles-avoid-turbines-at-a-rocky-mountain-wind-installation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/migrating-golden-eagles-avoid-turbines-at-a-rocky-mountain-wind-installation\/","title":{"rendered":"Migrating Golden Eagles Avoid Turbines at a Rocky Mountain Wind Installation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_767\" style=\"width: 727px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/eagle.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-767\" class=\" wp-image-767 \" alt=\"A new study shows that golden eagles increases their flight altitudes to avoid wind turbines in BC. (Photo credit: Tony Hisgett)\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/eagle.png\" width=\"717\" height=\"472\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-767\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A new study shows that golden eagles increases their flight altitudes to avoid wind turbines in BC. (Photo credit: <a href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Golden_Eagle_1a_(6022386137).jpg\" target=\"_blank\">Tony Hisgett<\/a>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Researchers in British Columbia have found that eagles detect and avoid wind turbines during migration by increasing their flight altitudes. The researchers visually tracked golden eagle migration over a commercial wind farm before and after construction. They monitored the\u00a0\u00a0commercial wind installation in the Hart Range near Chetwynd British Columbia &#8211; the Dokie 1 Wind Energy Project, which began operating in February 2011.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.plosone.org\/article\/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0093030\" target=\"_blank\">Original research paper<\/a><\/span>\u00a0published in the\u00a0journal\u00a0<em>PLOS ONE<\/em>\u00a0on\u00a0<strong>March 26, 2014<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Names and affiliations of selected<\/strong><strong>\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unbc.ca\/ken-otter\" target=\"_blank\">Naira N. Johnston<\/a>, University of Northern British Columbia<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers in British Columbia have found that eagles detect and avoid wind turbines during migration by increasing their flight altitudes. The researchers visually tracked golden eagle migration over a commercial wind farm before and after construction. They monitored the\u00a0\u00a0commercial wind installation in the Hart Range near Chetwynd British Columbia &#8211; the Dokie 1 Wind Energy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":767,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[39,125,644,215],"class_list":["post-765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-tip","tag-animal-behaviour","tag-british-columbia","tag-energy","tag-environment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/eagle-e1398105198138.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-cl","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=765"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":769,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765\/revisions\/769"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}