AI system
- System
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IdentiFlight automated eagle detection and turbine curtailment
- Model
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Not assessed
- Release
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Not assessed
- Application developer
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IdentiFlight - Role
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Not assessed
- Configuration
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Not assessed
- Inputs and outputs
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Not assessed
- Autonomy
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Not assessed
- Workflow
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Wind-farm expansion into lesser spotted eagle habitat creating a regulatory need for mitigation. Availability of the IdentiFlight system already evaluated in the United States.
- Human oversight
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Not assessed
- Relation to AI
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The deployment is reported through a registry summary of press coverage. No evaluation of the system's effect in Germany was found, and the only effect size cited is the contested Wyoming estimate.
- AI contribution
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Not assessed
Benefits
- Outcome identifiers
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Not assessed
- Benefit
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The OECD AI Incidents Monitor records Germany's deployment of IdentiFlight AI cameras to detect lesser spotted eagles near wind turbines and slow the blades (September 2022); no German outcome data.
- Category
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Improved Environmental Sustainability
- Status
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Not assessed
- Beneficiary groups
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Society. Organizations.
- Beneficiaries
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Not assessed
- Reach
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Not assessed
- Distribution and access
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Not assessed
- Duration
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Not assessed
- Expected?
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Yes
- Costs and harms
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Not assessed
Measurement
- Studies
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Not assessed
- Study design
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Not assessed
- Measurement
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Not assessed
- Setting and sample
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Not assessed
- Measures
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Not assessed
- Comparison
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Not assessed
- Results
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Not assessed
- Additional value from AI
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Not assessed
- Limitations
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Not assessed
- Denominators
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Not assessed
- Materials for replication
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Not assessed
Money
- Kind of value
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Not assessed
- Amount
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Not assessed
- Currency and prices
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Not assessed
- Period and unit
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Not assessed
- Realization
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Not assessed
- Recipients and payers
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Not assessed
- Gross or net
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Not assessed
- Included costs
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Not assessed
- Comparison
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Not assessed
- Method
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Not assessed
- Return and payback
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Not assessed
People and places
- Participants
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Developer:
IdentiFlight. - Jurisdictions
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Benefit:
Germany. Developer: 
United States. - Ownership and control
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Not assessed
- Dependencies
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Not assessed
- Cross-border connections
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Not assessed
- Geopolitical implications
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Not assessed
Follow-up
- Conditions for replication
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Site-specific monitoring of eagle fatalities before and after installation. Operators accepting curtailment losses.
- Replication attempts
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1 follow-up entries. Benefit recurred: 1.
- Later findings
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1 September 2025. OekoFor's validation page reports, in an entry dated September 2025 (day not given), that the latest IdentiFlight version is under evaluation in Germany and its recognition model is still being trained, after training on further species in April 2024.
- Availability
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Not assessed
- Institutional decision
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Not assessed
- Grounds
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Not assessed
- Action and result
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Not assessed
- Success criterion
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Not assessed
Evidence
- Source numbers
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AIBD-0172-source-0001–0002
- Citations
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Numbered references below.
- Language
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Not assessed
- Source relationships
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Independent
- Original evidence
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Not assessed
- Access and versions
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Not assessed
- Supported findings
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Not assessed
- Evidence links
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Not assessed
- Evidence strength
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Not assessed
- Missing evidence
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Not assessed
Grades
- Assessed benefits
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Society. Organizations.
- Depth
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Not assessed
- Reasons
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Society: No German fatality data are documented. Organizations: No operator or site outcome is documented.
- Observed or intended
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Not assessed
- Rubric
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Not assessed
- Assessor and date
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Not assessed
- Alternative assessments
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Not assessed
- Fill
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Listed, not verified
Entry details
- Kind
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Not assessed
- Related entries
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Not assessed
- Field
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Energy. Wind power wildlife mitigation.
- Purpose
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IdentiFlight is built to detect eagles and curtail turbines; protecting lesser spotted eagles at German wind farms is the intended use.
- Dates
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Date basis unassessed: 2022 (precision unassessed). Updated: 21 October 2026.
- Stage
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Not assessed
- Version
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SHA-256: d681e6db13db…
References
- Other identifiers
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Not assessed
- Category mappings
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Not assessed
- Brief
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Not assessed
- Revisions
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5 revisions. Latest: 21 October 2026.
Sources
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Other Independent author
OekoFor GbR (undated, news entries to September 2025). IdentiFlight. OekoFor portfolio page on the German validation of IdentiFlight.
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Registry label Independent author
OECD AI Incidents Monitor, record 2022-09-20-caeb, 'Germany Deploys AI to Protect Endangered Eagles from Wind Turbine Collisions'
Germany is deploying AI-powered camera systems, developed by IdentiFlight, to detect endangered lesser spotted eagles near wind turbines and slow the blades to prevent fatal collisions.