{ "objects": [{ "title": "Bats and wind energy: a literature synthesis and annotated bibliography", "creator": "Ellison, Laura E., 1967- author.", "date": "2012", "description": "USGS open-file report synthesizing scientific literature focused on bat mortality associated with wind energy in the U.S. and mitigation strategies; Includes annotated bibliography of peer-reviewed studies and theses", "subject": "Bats -- Mortality; Wind turbine bat strikes; Horizontal axis wind turbines; Wind power plants -- Environmental aspects", "location": "VA", "type": "Text", "format": "application/pdf", "rights": "Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain", "rightsstatement": "http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/", "reference_url": "https://batsandbooks.github.io/another-dead-bat/item.html?id=001-2026-03-31" }, { "title": "HAWT mortality: juvenile male silver-haired bat", "creator": "Rider, Chelsea", "date": "2011-09-24", "description": "Juvenile male Silver-haired bat stuck by turbine blade (HAWT); No external trauma observed; Signs of internal damage due to barotrauma; frozen specimen - minimal degradation of carcass", "subject": "Silver-haired bat; Bats -- Mortality; Wind turbine bat strikes; Wind power plants -- Environmental aspects", "location": "PA", "type": "Image", "format": "image/jpeg", "rights": "© 2011 Chelsea Rider. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution–NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY?NC 4.0).", "rightsstatement": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode.en", "reference_url": "https://batsandbooks.github.io/another-dead-bat/item.html?id=002-2026-03-31" }, { "title": "HAWT mortality: female eastern red bat", "creator": "Rider, Chelsea", "date": "2011-08-09", "description": "Adult female E. Red bat struck by turbine blade (HAWT); Lacerations and signs of blunt force trauma on left forearm and wing; frozen specimen - minimal degradation of carcass", "subject": "Eastern red bat; Bats -- Mortality; Wind turbine bat strikes; Wind power plants -- Environmental aspects", "location": "PA", "type": "Image", "format": "image/jpeg", "rights": "© 2011 Chelsea Rider. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution–NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY?NC 4.0).", "rightsstatement": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode.en", "reference_url": "https://batsandbooks.github.io/another-dead-bat/item.html?id=003-2026-03-31" }, { "title": "HAWT mortality: male hoary bat", "creator": "Rider, Chelsea", "date": "2010-08-16", "description": "Adult male Hoary bat struck by turbine blade (HAWT); No external trauma observed; Signs of internal damage focused on right side; Unpreserved specimen - no degradation of carcass", "subject": "Hoary bat; Bats -- Mortality; Wind turbine bat strikes; Wind power plants -- Environmental aspects", "location": "OH", "type": "Image", "format": "image/jpeg", "rights": "© 2010 Chelsea Rider. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution–NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY?NC 4.0).", "rightsstatement": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode.en", "reference_url": "https://batsandbooks.github.io/another-dead-bat/item.html?id=001-2026-04-07" }, { "title": "HAWT mortality: male northern long-eared bat", "creator": "Rider, Chelsea", "date": "2010-08-16", "description": "Adult male N. Long-eared bat, turbine-related mortality (HAWT); Lack of external injuries suggest barotrauma-related mortality due to turbine-induced pressure differentials; frozen specimen - minimal degradation of carcass", "subject": "Northern long-eared myotis; Bats -- Mortality; Wind turbine bat strikes; Wind power plants -- Environmental aspects", "location": "PA", "type": "Image", "format": "image/jpeg", "rights": "© 2010 Chelsea Rider. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution–NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY?NC 4.0).", "rightsstatement": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode.en", "reference_url": "https://batsandbooks.github.io/another-dead-bat/item.html?id=001-2026-04-14" }, { "title": "HAWT mortality: juvenile male northern long-eared bat", "creator": "Rider, Chelsea", "date": "2010-10-25", "description": "Juvenile male N. Long-eared bat stuck by turbine blade (HAWT); Right shoulder and wing broken due to blunt force trauma; frozen specimen - minimal degradation of carcass", "subject": "Northern long-eared myotis; Bats -- Mortality; Wind turbine bat strikes; Wind power plants -- Environmental aspects", "location": "PA", "type": "Image", "format": "image/jpeg", "rights": "© 2010 Chelsea Rider. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution–NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY?NC 4.0).", "rightsstatement": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode.en", "reference_url": "https://batsandbooks.github.io/another-dead-bat/item.html?id=002-2026-04-14" }, { "title": "HAWT mortality: male hoary bat", "creator": "Rider, Chelsea", "date": "2010-10-25", "description": "Adult male Hoary bat struck by turbine blade (HAWT); Extensive external and internal trauma suggests direct impact, likely near the tip of the blade; frozen specimen- minimal degradation of carcass", "subject": "Hoary bat; Bats -- Mortality; Wind turbine bat strikes; Wind power plants -- Environmental aspects", "location": "PA", "type": "Image", "format": "image/jpeg", "rights": "© 2010 Chelsea Rider. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution–NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY?NC 4.0).", "rightsstatement": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode.en", "reference_url": "https://batsandbooks.github.io/another-dead-bat/item.html?id=003-2026-04-14" }, { "title": "HAWT mortality: partial carcass of red bat", "creator": "Rider, Chelsea", "date": "2010-10-25", "description": "Partial carcass of adult E. Red bat of unknown sex struck by turbine blade (HAWT); Remains of ligaments on shoulder joint of left wing suggest it was severed upon impact; frozen specimen - heavily degraded with moderate decomposition of wing membrane", "subject": "Eastern red bat; Bats -- Mortality; Wind turbine bat strikes; Wind power plants -- Environmental aspects", "location": "PA", "type": "Image", "format": "image/jpeg", "rights": "© 2010 Chelsea Rider. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution–NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY?NC 4.0).", "rightsstatement": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode.en", "reference_url": "https://batsandbooks.github.io/another-dead-bat/item.html?id=004-2026-04-14" }, { "title": "HAWT mortality: post-lactating female hoary bat", "creator": "Rider, Chelsea", "date": "2010-10-25", "description": "Adult female Hoary bat (post-lactating) struck by turbine blade (HAWT); Deep lacerations on right side and broken finger joints on left wing; frozen specimen - moderate degradation with some decomposition of exposed organs", "subject": "Hoary bat; Bats -- Mortality; Wind turbine bat strikes; Wind power plants -- Environmental aspects", "location": "PA", "type": "Image", "format": "image/jpeg", "rights": "© 2010 Chelsea Rider. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution–NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY?NC 4.0).", "rightsstatement": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode.en", "reference_url": "https://batsandbooks.github.io/another-dead-bat/item.html?id=005-2026-04-14" }, { "title": "HAWT mortality: little brown bat", "creator": "Rider, Chelsea", "date": "2010-08-02", "description": "Adult Little Brown bat of unknown sex struck by turbine blade (HAWT); Deep lacerations on abdomen suggest direct stike; Frozen specimen - moderate-advanced degredation with missing tissue likey caused by scavenging", "subject": "Little brown bat: Bats -- Mortality; Wind turbine bat strikes; Wind power plants -- Environmental aspects", "location": "NY", "type": "Image", "format": "image/jpeg", "rights": "© 2010 Chelsea Rider. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution–NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY?NC 4.0).", "rightsstatement": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode.en", "reference_url": "https://batsandbooks.github.io/another-dead-bat/item.html?id=006-2026-04-14" }, { "title": "A deadly double punch:together, turbines and disease jeopardize endangered bats", "description": "USGS article summarizing the findings of a 2016 study which determine causation of accelerating declines in bat populations, particularly the endangered Indiana bat, to be directly related to both WNS (white-nose syndrome) and wind turbine (HAWT) related mortality; Includes species range map, video clip of temperature-imaging surveillance featuring bat interaction with HAWT, and links to the original study", "subject": "Bats -- Mortality; Wind turbine bat strikes; Horizontal axis wind turbines; Wind power plants -- Environmental aspects; White-nose syndrome; Myotis sodalis", "format": "compound_object", "reference_url": "https://batsandbooks.github.io/another-dead-bat/item.html?id=007-2026-04-14" }, { "title": "A deadly double punch:together, turbines and disease jeopardize endangered bats", "description": "USGS article summarizing the findings of a 2016 study which determine causation of accelerating declines in bat populations, particularly the endangered Indiana bat, to be directly related to both WNS (white-nose syndrome) and wind turbine (HAWT) related mortality", "subject": "Bats -- Mortality; Wind turbine bat strikes; Horizontal axis wind turbines; Wind power plants -- Environmental aspects; White-nose syndrome; Myotis sodalis", "type": "Text", "format": "text/html", "reference_url": "https://batsandbooks.github.io/another-dead-bat/item.html?id=008-2026-04-14" }, { "title": "An Indiana bat hanging onto a tree", "creator": "Mann, Adam", "date": "2016-10-21", "description": "Image of an endangered Indiana bat clinging to the exfoliating bark of a tree", "subject": "Myotis sodalis; Bats -- Conservation", "type": "Image", "format": "image/png", "rights": "Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain", "rightsstatement": "http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/", "reference_url": "https://batsandbooks.github.io/another-dead-bat/item.html?id=009-2026-04-14" }, { "title": "Temperature-imaging surveillance video: bat interacting with horizontal axis wind turbine", "creator": "Cryan, Paul", "date": "2009", "description": "Surveillance video clip from a temperature-imaging camera which shows a bat interacting with HAWT: Flight behavior suggests curiosity, most likely a male bat investigating a potential roost; 1m16sec clip, video resolution 614 x 454 pixels, limited by imaging device", "subject": "Horizontal axis wind turbines; Wind power plants -- Environmental aspects; Bats -- Conservation", "type": "MovingImage", "format": "video/mp4", "rights": "Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain", "rightsstatement": "http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/", "reference_url": "https://batsandbooks.github.io/another-dead-bat/item.html?id=010-2026-04-14" }, { "title": "Range map of indiana bat populations with wind farm fatality notation", "creator": "Pruitt, Lori; Okajima, Jennifer", "date": "2015", "description": "U.S. map depicting known territory range of the Indiana bat, noting counties with confirmed wind turnbine-related fatality of indiana bats as of April 2015", "subject": "Myotis sodalis; Bats -- Conservation; Bats -- Mortality; Wind turbine bat strikes; Horizontal axis wind turbines; Wind power plants -- Environmental aspects", "location": "IN", "type": "Image", "format": "image/png", "rights": "Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain", "rightsstatement": "http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/", "reference_url": "https://batsandbooks.github.io/another-dead-bat/item.html?id=011-2026-04-14" }, { "title": "HAWT mortality: lactating female hoary bat", "creator": "Rider, Chelsea", "date": "2010-08-03", "description": "Adult lactating female Hoary bat struck by turbine blade (HAWT); Blunt force trauma on left side of skull along with damage to left wing; frozen specimen- minimal degradation of carcass", "subject": "Hoary bat; Bats -- Mortality; Wind turbine bat strikes; Wind power plants -- Environmental aspects", "location": "NY", "type": "Image", "format": "image/jpeg", "rights": "© 2010 Chelsea Rider. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution–NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY?NC 4.0).", "rightsstatement": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode.en", "reference_url": "https://batsandbooks.github.io/another-dead-bat/item.html?id=012-2026-04-14" }, { "title": "HAWT mortality: partial carcass of adult big brown bat", "creator": "Rider, Chelsea", "date": "2010-08-03", "description": "Partial carcass of adult Big Brown bat of unknown sex struck by turbine blade (HAWT); Partial skeletalization with evidence of fractured spine, right humerus, and right radius; frozen specimen - moderate-severe degradation of carcass, partially decomposed with loss of soft tissue", "subject": "Big brown bat; Bats -- Mortality; Wind turbine bat strikes; Wind power plants -- Environmental aspects", "location": "NY", "type": "Image", "format": "image/jpeg", "rights": "© 2010 Chelsea Rider. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution–NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY?NC 4.0).", "rightsstatement": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode.en", "reference_url": "https://batsandbooks.github.io/another-dead-bat/item.html?id=013-2026-04-14" }, { "title": "HAWT mortality: pregnant female little brown bat", "creator": "Rider, Chelsea", "date": "2010-09-07", "description": "Adult pregnant female Little Brown bat struck by turbine blade (HAWT); Blunt force trauma on lower spine and deep lacerations near left hip joint suggest direct impact on edge of blade; frozen specimen - minimal degradation of carcass", "subject": "Little brown bat: Bats -- Mortality; Wind turbine bat strikes; Wind power plants -- Environmental aspects", "location": "PA", "type": "Image", "format": "image/jpeg", "rights": "© 2010 Chelsea Rider. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution–NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY?NC 4.0).", "rightsstatement": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode.en", "reference_url": "https://batsandbooks.github.io/another-dead-bat/item.html?id=001-2026-04-22" }, { "title": "HAWT mortality: adult male tri-colored bat", "creator": "Rider, Chelsea", "date": "2010-09-07", "description": "Adult male Tri-colored bat stuck by turbine blade (HAWT); Shallow lacerations on lower back and tail membrane; Signs of internal damage in abdominal cavity; frozen specimen - minimal degradation of carcass", "subject": "Tri-colored bat: Bats -- Mortality; Wind turbine bat strikes; Wind power plants -- Environmental aspects", "location": "PA", "type": "Image", "format": "image/jpeg", "rights": "© 2010 Chelsea Rider. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution–NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY?NC 4.0).", "rightsstatement": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode.en", "reference_url": "https://batsandbooks.github.io/another-dead-bat/item.html?id=002-2026-04-22" } ] }