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Posted on 10/27/2023 5:06:51 PM PDT by CedarDave
SANTA FE — A California research team is conducting a five-year ecological study of six songbird species in northwestern New Mexico oil fields to see how sensory intrusions affect the birds’ survival, reproduction and general health.
The Santa Fe New Mexican says the study by avian researchers from California Polytechnic State University will zero in on the specific impacts of noise and light pollution.
As the human population swells and generates more light and sound, researchers are curious about how those multiplying stressors might compound the challenges of climate change in New Mexico’s San Juan Basin, the newspaper reported.
Clint Francis, an ecology professor at California Polytechnic, said early studies that examined whether excessive noise and light decreased bird populations were done in more urban settings, where the birds were threatened by prowling cats, toxic chemicals and speeding cars.
The next step is to isolate either noise or light in a rural area to see how one or the other affects the songbirds, Francis said.
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This is how the new stalinists shut down oil drilling.
PETA is so hypocritical. They should be marching in protest against windmills that kill thousands of birds, 5 G that kills more and more birds, ocean wind power that is forcing so many whales to beach and die, and greenies that are starting fires in hundreds of places.
They seem to be silent! They should be returning all monies sent their way.
I once drove late at night, under a full moon, from Tuba City to Gallup. It was a beautiful, haunting experience.
Lessee... Songbirds don’t have leases/mortgages to tie them down and they do have a readily available means of transportation; so, I’m guessin’ they would just move to another neighborhood if lights and noise bothered them at night.
“We’ll shut those oilfields down yet!”
My research shows that researchers are killing the birds by tromping around their habitat and spilling soy lattes everywhere.
They’ll decide it does because any excuse to shut down oil production will do.“
That is exactly what this is. Windmills are killing millions of birds but no problem
They’re doing their best to help their Iranian masters and shut down domestic oil production.
I have a number of wells east of Roswell and plenty of infield, proven, drilling II could do, but it’s all held by production so I let it sit their and drill in Texas where the government is actually helpful and not just trying to shutnthjbfs down or figure out a fine.
They don’t care about the birds, only about stopping oil production.
Obviously you have never been working on the Bakken.
On federal ground every well has a number designation.
In North Dakota every well has the name of the rancher who owns the ground
We discovered an abandoned gold mine on our property and found there was still lots of gold yet to be extracted. Some was sticking out of the cave walls. But I boarded it off because I like feeding humming birds and don’t want to intrude on their delicate senses.
The noise of a 20 gauge?
Naaa, they couldn’t because they are “green” and anything green CAN’T harm anything.
Any platinum in those parts?
I can save everyone some time. “OF COURSE they bother the birds! They need to be shut down RIGHT NOW!”
Wait for it.
Why dont they go look at the dead birds in the wind generator fields and document some real species depletion?
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