Globally increasing energy demands in conjunction with new climate targets based on green technologies require the expansion of electricity networks (D'Amico et al., 2018;Haucap & Pagel, 2016). This is inevitably associated with increased collision risks for several bird species (Erickson et al., 2002). Bird strikes at power lines have been investigated empirically for several decades and have been documented for several hundred species (Bernardino et al., 2018;Loss et al., 2014). However, such collisions can be reduced by