Central Asian Flyway Bird Collision Reporting Portal
Report bird collisions and electrocutions with energy infrastructure across the Central Asian Flyway
Millions of migratory birds travel across the Central Asian Flyway, connecting more than 30 countries from the Arctic to the Indian Ocean. Along this journey, birds increasingly face a growing threat: collisions with human-made structures such as powerlines, wind turbines, buildings, and communication towers.
The Central Asian Flyway Bird Collision Reporting Portal is a regional platform that allows birdwatchers, researchers, field staff, infrastructure managers, and the public to report bird collisions in a simple, transparent, and scientifically useful way.
By reporting collisions, users help:
- Identify high-risk infrastructure
- Improve planning of energy and development projects
- Guide mitigation actions
- Save birds across international flyways
This portal is coordinated by the Central Asian Conservation Network (CACN).
Why Report Bird Collisions?
Bird collisions are one of the fastest-growing human-caused threats to migratory birds. Energy infrastructure, especially powerlines and wind turbines, is expanding rapidly across the flyway, often in critical migration routes, wetlands, and steppe habitats.
Most collisions go unrecorded. Without data, dangerous sites remain invisible.
Reports help to:
- Build a regional collision risk map
- Detect hotspots along migration routes
- Support governments and developers to apply bird-safe designs
- Protect threatened species
Every report counts — even one bird matters.
How the Bird Collision Portal Works
Choose the pathway that matches how your data were collected. Individual observations and structured monitoring data are submitted differently, then reviewed by CACN before further use.
Individual observation
For a single or opportunistic bird collision, electrocution, mortality or injury observation.
Building, glass, urban and communication-related structure observations are reported through BirdMapper.
Go to BirdMapperSystematic survey data
For structured monitoring data from research, monitoring programmes, environmental assessments or EIAs.
Download the Powerline Excel template and complete it with your survey data.
Download the Wind turbine Excel template and complete it with your survey data.
Submission received
Your report or systematic dataset is received through the appropriate pathway.
CACN review
Submitted information is reviewed for quality and completeness before further use.
Approved data support action
Approved data support research, risk assessment, mitigation and conservation across the flyway.
Who Can Submit Reports?
Anyone can contribute:
- Birdwatchers and photographers
- Local communities
- Rangers and field staff
- Scientists and students
- Energy and infrastructure companies
Users do not need to be experts; they should simply share what they observed.
What Happens After You Submit a Report?
All submitted reports are:
- Stored in a secure regional database
- Reviewed by experts
- Used to identify dangerous infrastructure
- Shared in anonymised form with governments, researchers, and energy planners
The data directly supports conservation action.
Start Reporting a Collision
Click “Submit a Report” to begin. It takes only a few minutes.
Collected structured monitoring data through a research project, monitoring programme or environmental assessment? Submit it through the Systematic Surveys pathway.
Systematic Surveys