Introduction.- Session 1: Investigations and assessments of new wind farms.- Predicting the weather-dependent collision risk for birds at wind farms.- Fauna collisions with wind turbines: effects and impacts, individuals and populations. What are we trying to assess?.- Wind farms and biodiversity: improving environmental risk assessments.- The use of aerial surveys for the detection of the brolga Grus rubicunda through south-west Victoria: key considerations for the wind industry.- Planning for net biodiversity gains: a case study of Hauāuru mā raki wind farm, New Zealand.- Session 2: Monitoring, mitigation and offsets.- Results and analysis of eagle studies from the Bluff Point and Studland Bay Wind Farms 2002 - 2012.- Observations from the use of dogs to undertake carcass searches at wind facilities in Australia.- Key learnings from ten years of monitoring and management interventions at the Bluff Point and Studland Bay Wind Farms: results of a review.- Summary of panel session.
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