Bird deaths from power lines at Dungeness

It has long been recognised that birds are killed or injured by flying into overhead wires, but the problem has received little in the way of detailed investigation. Although birds strike telephone wires, this paper is largely concerned with electrical transmission cables. In Britain, the Central Electricity Generating Board has some 17,000 km of major (400, 275 and 132 kv) transmission lines, 5,8...