Biodiversity hotspot and birder’s dream no more: Kaban windpower facility repelling birds

National Wind Watch » Blog · 2 years ago · 160 views

Once a biodiversity hotspot and birder’s dream, the construction of the Kaban wind farm appears to have repelled a large number of bird species. We’ve been going through the 2023 Annual Compliance Report for Kaban wind farm in FNQ, just published. The number of bird species surveyed on the site since 2018 has dropped markedly. The sheer number of bird species observed in 2018 was huge: 85 species! But by 2023, 1 year after Kaban wind farm became operational, the . . .