Keywords
monitoring
bat fatalities
Montenegro
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Abstract
The first post-construction monitoring of the impact of the windfarm on bat fauna in Montenegro started in 2019 and was completed in 2022 in the area of the “Možura” windfarm. This research paper presents the results of that monitoring, i.e. the data of bat fatalities at the windfarm in Montenegro. During four years of research and monitoring in the area of the “Možura” windfarm, where there are 23 wind turbines, a total of ten carcasses of bats were noted; one carcass of Myotis myotis/M. blythii was recorded in 2019, three carcasses of bats Pipistrellus pipistrellus, Pipistrellus kuhlii and Hypsugo savii were recorded in 2021, and six carcasses of bats Pipistrellus pipistrellus, Pipistrellus kuhlii and Eptesicus serotinus were recorded in 2022.
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