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Title	Author	Year of Publication	Country	Language
Wildlife-caused outages and mortality in substations: from wildlife mitigation to durable biodiversity-positive asset management	Brian McGowan, Matthew James	2026	Global	English
Towards positive biodiversity contribution from transmission infrastructure: safe osprey nesting, fault reduction and 50+ year durable mitigation design.	Brian McGowan, Lennie Edman-Terning, Nathan Markowicz	2026	U.S, Global	English
Avian collision mitigation, global best practices and technology review	Brian McGowan	2025	Global	English
Avian collision mitigation, global best practices and technology review	Brian McGowan	2025	Global	English
Grid hardening, increasing realiability and reducing wildlife-related fire risk	McGowan et al.	2024	NA	English
Wire marking reduces bird collisions with a transmission powerline in western Belgium	Verbelen et al.	2024	Belgium	English
A review of post-construction monitoring practices used in the evaluation of transmission power line impacts on birds and mitigation effectiveness, with proposals for guideline improvement	Martins et al.	2023	Portugal	English
Sensitivity mapping informs mitigation of bird mortality by collision with high-voltage power lines	Paquet et al.	2022	Belgium	English
Interactions between Electrical Infrastructure and Wildlife	Saint-Simon & Hughes	2022	Global	English
Wildlife and power lines guidelines for preventing and mitigating wildlife mortality associated with electricity distribution networks	IUCN	2022	Global	English
Vision-Based Design and Deployment Criteria for Power Line Bird Diverters	Martin, G.	2022	Global	English
Safe grid for birds: A good practice guide for retrofitting of power distribution grid to be safe for wild birds	Spasov et al.	2022	Bulgaria	English

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