Collision and electrocution risk · Strait of Gibraltar / Campo de Gibraltar (Cádiz, Spain)

Strait of Gibraltar / Campo de Gibraltar (Cádiz, Spain) · bbox (36.0, -5.95, 36.45, -5.3) · generated on 2026-10-16 · sources: OpenStreetMap (ODbL), GBIF/eBird, Movebank Data Repository, AWS Terrain Tiles · All regions

Switch on a monthly layer in the map's layer control to see the seasonality. The circles are the elements with the highest correction priority (pylons, wind turbines and line segments).

Infrastructure in the area (OSM)

Power lines: 414 segments · km by category: distribution 396.4 · transmission 491.0 · unknown 1.3
Mapped pylons: 2,703 (distribution ≤66 kV: 1,738; with hazard attributes in OSM: 143)
Wind turbines: 516

Species

Species	Common name	GBIF records	Confidence (weight in the aggregate)	Included
Gyps fulvus	Griffon Vulture	22,683	1.0	yes
Aegypius monachus	Cinereous Vulture	606	1.0	yes
Neophron percnopterus	Egyptian Vulture	13,669	1.0	yes
Aquila adalberti	Spanish Imperial Eagle	2,364	1.0	yes
Aquila fasciata	Bonelli’s Eagle	3,380	1.0	yes
Aquila chrysaetos	Golden Eagle	261	0.52	yes
Circaetus gallicus	Short-toed Snake Eagle	22,613	1.0	yes
Hieraaetus pennatus	Booted Eagle	22,476	1.0	yes
Pernis apivorus	European Honey Buzzard	19,306	1.0	yes
Milvus migrans	Black Kite	20,137	1.0	yes
Milvus milvus	Red Kite	2,440	1.0	yes
Falco peregrinus	Peregrine Falcon	3,527	1.0	yes
Ciconia ciconia	White Stork	18,819	1.0	yes
Ciconia nigra	Black Stork	8,054	1.0	yes
Grus grus	Common Crane	3,728	1.0	yes
Bubo bubo	Eurasian Eagle-Owl	624	1.0	yes

Seasonality of the risk (mean index over cells with infrastructure)

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Griffon Vulture	11	14	13	12	12	11	12	9	9	11	13	11
Cinereous Vulture	7	5	3	3	2	2	1	2	3	8	36	16
Egyptian Vulture	0	9	14	9	9	6	11	14	14	7	1	0
Spanish Imperial Eagle	5	5	3	3	4	4	3	5	10	12	10	6
Bonelli’s Eagle	13	10	7	7	5	3	4	7	9	14	13	10
Golden Eagle	6	17	12	12	9	0	2	3	11	21	14	6
Short-toed Snake Eagle	1	7	16	13	13	12	18	15	15	14	6	2
Booted Eagle	1	2	15	19	17	17	18	16	18	14	6	2
European Honey Buzzard	0	0	0	5	21	4	0	15	19	5	0	0
Black Kite	2	13	20	17	14	6	14	17	10	4	1	0
Red Kite	8	7	4	1	1	0	1	5	5	16	17	15
Peregrine Falcon	16	13	9	8	8	6	9	9	10	15	14	12
White Stork	12	12	16	16	16	12	17	10	9	7	8	8
Black Stork	2	6	11	7	4	1	0	4	17	18	5	3
Common Crane	8	6	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	6	6
Eurasian Eagle-Owl	13	13	17	10	8	7	7	9	7	7	12	10
TOTAL	11	14	17	15	14	10	13	14	18	19	16	11

Top 50 elements to prioritise

#	Type	Mechanism	Risk max.	Mean	Peak month	Species	Category	Operator	OSM
1	pylon	electrocution	433	200	Nov	Cinereous Vulture, Red Kite, Bonelli’s Eagle	distribution 20 kV	nan	6294396361
2	pylon	electrocution	433	200	Nov	Cinereous Vulture, Red Kite, Bonelli’s Eagle	distribution 20 kV	nan	12185925816
3	power line	line collision	351	171	Nov	Cinereous Vulture, Bonelli’s Eagle, Peregrine Falcon	distribution 20 kV	nan	672162863
4	pylon	electrocution	333	154	Nov	Cinereous Vulture, Red Kite, Bonelli’s Eagle	distribution 66 kV	nan	6294396362
5	pylon	electrocution	333	154	Nov	Cinereous Vulture, Red Kite, Bonelli’s Eagle	distribution 66 kV	nan	6294396376
6	pylon	electrocution	333	154	Nov	Cinereous Vulture, Red Kite, Bonelli’s Eagle	distribution 20 kV	nan	6294396374
7	pylon	electrocution	333	154	Nov	Cinereous Vulture, Red Kite, Bonelli’s Eagle	distribution 66 kV	nan	6394097615
8	pylon	electrocution	333	154	Nov	Cinereous Vulture, Red Kite, Bonelli’s Eagle	distribution 20 kV	nan	6294396372
9	pylon	electrocution	333	154	Nov	Cinereous Vulture, Red Kite, Bonelli’s Eagle	distribution 20 kV	nan	6294396373
10	power line	line collision	292	152	Oct	Black Stork, Bonelli’s Eagle, Short-toed Snake Eagle	distribution 20 kV	nan	684125290
11	pylon	electrocution	260	123	Nov	Cinereous Vulture, Red Kite, Bonelli’s Eagle	distribution 66 kV	nan	4044267632
12	pylon	electrocution	260	123	Nov	Cinereous Vulture, Red Kite, Bonelli’s Eagle	distribution 66 kV	nan	4044267631
13	pylon	electrocution	260	123	Nov	Cinereous Vulture, Red Kite, Bonelli’s Eagle	distribution 20 kV	nan	6294396367
14	pylon	electrocution	260	123	Nov	Cinereous Vulture, Red Kite, Bonelli’s Eagle	distribution 20 kV	nan	6294396370
15	pylon	electrocution	260	123	Nov	Cinereous Vulture, Red Kite, Bonelli’s Eagle	distribution 20 kV	nan	6294396369
16	pylon	electrocution	260	123	Nov	Cinereous Vulture, Red Kite, Bonelli’s Eagle	distribution 20 kV	nan	6294396368
17	pylon	electrocution	260	123	Nov	Cinereous Vulture, Red Kite, Bonelli’s Eagle	distribution 20 kV	nan	6294396371
18	power line	line collision	247	125	Oct	Black Stork, Bonelli’s Eagle, Short-toed Snake Eagle	distribution 66 kV	nan	96914801
19	power line	line collision	247	125	Oct	Black Stork, Bonelli’s Eagle, Short-toed Snake Eagle	distribution 66 kV	nan	1316644534
20	power line	line collision	247	125	Oct	Black Stork, Bonelli’s Eagle, Short-toed Snake Eagle	distribution 66 kV	nan	1316644532
21	power line	line collision	247	125	Oct	Black Stork, Bonelli’s Eagle, Short-toed Snake Eagle	distribution 66 kV	nan	1316644531
22	power line	line collision	247	125	Oct	Black Stork, Bonelli’s Eagle, Short-toed Snake Eagle	distribution 66 kV	nan	1316644535
23	power line	line collision	247	125	Oct	Black Stork, Bonelli’s Eagle, Short-toed Snake Eagle	distribution 66 kV	nan	1316644533
24	wind turbine	turbine collision	236	118	Sep	Black Stork, European Honey Buzzard, Booted Eagle	wind	nan	1968239135
25	wind turbine	turbine collision	236	118	Sep	Black Stork, European Honey Buzzard, Booted Eagle	wind	nan	1968239381
26	wind turbine	turbine collision	236	118	Sep	Black Stork, European Honey Buzzard, Booted Eagle	wind	nan	1968239153
27	wind turbine	turbine collision	236	118	Sep	Black Stork, European Honey Buzzard, Booted Eagle	wind	nan	1968239122
28	wind turbine	turbine collision	236	118	Sep	Black Stork, European Honey Buzzard, Booted Eagle	wind	nan	1968239148
29	wind turbine	turbine collision	236	118	Sep	Black Stork, European Honey Buzzard, Booted Eagle	wind	nan	1968239444
30	wind turbine	turbine collision	236	118	Sep	Black Stork, European Honey Buzzard, Booted Eagle	wind	nan	1968239253
31	wind turbine	turbine collision	236	118	Sep	Black Stork, European Honey Buzzard, Booted Eagle	wind	nan	1968239258
32	pylon	electrocution	230	109	Nov	Cinereous Vulture, Red Kite, Bonelli’s Eagle	distribution 20 kV	nan	6406806911
33	pylon	electrocution	230	109	Nov	Cinereous Vulture, Red Kite, Bonelli’s Eagle	distribution 20 kV	nan	6406806910
34	pylon	electrocution	230	109	Nov	Cinereous Vulture, Red Kite, Bonelli’s Eagle	distribution 20 kV	nan	6406806912
35	wind turbine	turbine collision	225	106	Nov	Cinereous Vulture, Bonelli’s Eagle, Peregrine Falcon	wind	nan	4226781741
36	wind turbine	turbine collision	225	106	Nov	Cinereous Vulture, Bonelli’s Eagle, Peregrine Falcon	wind	nan	2640940926
37	wind turbine	turbine collision	225	106	Nov	Cinereous Vulture, Bonelli’s Eagle, Peregrine Falcon	wind	nan	4226781789
38	wind turbine	turbine collision	225	106	Nov	Cinereous Vulture, Bonelli’s Eagle, Peregrine Falcon	wind	nan	2640940892
39	wind turbine	turbine collision	225	106	Nov	Cinereous Vulture, Bonelli’s Eagle, Peregrine Falcon	wind	nan	4226781768
40	wind turbine	turbine collision	225	106	Nov	Cinereous Vulture, Bonelli’s Eagle, Peregrine Falcon	wind	nan	4226781799
41	wind turbine	turbine collision	225	106	Nov	Cinereous Vulture, Bonelli’s Eagle, Peregrine Falcon	wind	nan	2640940900
42	wind turbine	turbine collision	225	106	Nov	Cinereous Vulture, Bonelli’s Eagle, Peregrine Falcon	wind	nan	2640940939
43	wind turbine	turbine collision	225	106	Nov	Cinereous Vulture, Bonelli’s Eagle, Peregrine Falcon	wind	nan	2640940916
44	pylon	electrocution	222	66	Oct	Black Stork, Bonelli’s Eagle, Peregrine Falcon	distribution 66 kV	nan	6394097656
45	pylon	electrocution	222	66	Oct	Black Stork, Bonelli’s Eagle, Peregrine Falcon	distribution 20 kV	nan	6396319957
46	pylon	electrocution	222	66	Oct	Black Stork, Bonelli’s Eagle, Peregrine Falcon	distribution 20 kV	nan	6396319956
47	pylon	electrocution	222	66	Oct	Black Stork, Bonelli’s Eagle, Peregrine Falcon	distribution 66 kV	nan	6394097657
48	pylon	electrocution	221	111	Oct	Black Stork, Bonelli’s Eagle, Short-toed Snake Eagle	distribution 20 kV	nan	6294396365
49	pylon	electrocution	221	111	Oct	Black Stork, Bonelli’s Eagle, Short-toed Snake Eagle	distribution 20 kV	nan	6408921278
50	pylon	electrocution	221	111	Oct	Black Stork, Bonelli’s Eagle, Short-toed Snake Eagle	distribution 66 kV	nan	4044267629

Full ranking in ranking_elements.csv and ranking_elements.geojson; monthly rasters in risk_total.tif.

Grid cell	0.005°
Maximum distribution voltage	66 kV
Pylons assumed where none are mapped	6 per km
Pylon cap per cell	20
Record smoothing (σ)	1,500 m with ≥300 records in the month
GBIF records	from 2010, up to 20,000 per species
Minimum records to include a species	30
Full confidence	500 records or 2,000 GPS fixes
Maximum GPS weight (Movebank)	50%
eBird Status & Trends weight	70%
Slope at which line collision doubles	25°
Topographic position radius	1,500 m
Scale	99th percentile = 100

Power-line risk for birds

Infrastructure in the area (OSM)

Species

Seasonality of the risk (mean index over cells with infrastructure)

Top 50 elements to prioritise

How it is computed

Parameters

Validation

Limits