Prediction and measurement of high intensity bird migration using meteorological radar data in Eemshaven windpark

The Eemshaven Showcase project was designed to explain how radar technologies can be used to monitor, understand and predict nocturnal passerine migration for the wind energy industry and to investigate how a system providing advance warning to initiate temporary shutdown procedures during peak nocturnal migration might be developed. The feasibility study and data analyses were commissioned by Provincie Groningen and carried out in 2018-2019 by a consortium consisting of 3 contractors: Bureau Waardenburg, Altenberg & Wymenga and the University of Amsterdam Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics (IBED). Altenberg & Wymenga and Bureau Waardenburg describe their work in separate reports (Klop & Brenninkmeijer, 2020, Kleyheeg-Hartman, J.C. & A. Potiek, 2020), and the methodology and results related to those tasks carried out by IBED are detailed in this report. The integration report (Bouten, W. et al., 2020) presents a comparison of all the data collected for this project and provides a discussion of how results may be applied to the future development of a predictive model of migration specific to the Eemshaven wind farm.