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June 25, 2018

OSU tries to keep eagles out of turbines

  • The team got a $625,000 federal grant to use technology to deter birds from flying too close to wind turbines.
    • By STEPHEN HAMWAY
    The Bulletin

    BEND, Ore. — On a Monday afternoon, a captive audience watched a 14-year-old golden eagle named Walter fly from branch to branch outside the High Desert Museum, gobbling up bits of dead quail as he went.

    However, the demonstration was not part of the museum's well-known Raptors of the Desert Sky show. Instead, it was a piece of an ongoing Oregon State University project using the museum's collection of eagles to help model behavior and flight patterns to develop technology that ultimately reduces the number of golden eagles killed by wind turbines.


     
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