Even if the windmill number is higher it's still nothing compared to the other things. Yeah, wind power is stupid but it's not quite the bird killer it's made out to be.
Posted on 09/23/2019 9:00:44 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
and my cats are walking around looking guilty for no reason ..
Bats, too...
Wouldn't it be wonderful if just once those that are intent to save the planet told us what they as individuals are going to do to conserve energy and the environment?
“will save the erf.”
As Representative for the last ERF on earth,I thank You! LOL
It’s a leftist plot to destroy all the American Bald Eagles
By comparison there are FAR fewer windmills yet somehow the birds can't avoid the slow moving blades??? Doesn't make sense to me.
I don’t see the 10 Lb cat next door dragging home bald eagles or barn owls
Maybe this article can shed some light:
https://www.nbcnews.com/mach/science/wind-energy-takes-toll-birds-now-there-s-help-ncna866336
Here’s a scientific study:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0006320713003522
Who does the counting of these bird carcasses? Sounds doubtful.
Particularly raptors and bats. Raptors tend to fly above ridges - where the damned windmills are located - when they migrate from one area to another. We have quite a few windmills/turbines here in West Central PA and I know a couple guys who are paid to go to windmill sites and pick up dead birds (and bats) twice a week. They tell me that I’d be shocked at how many birds they pick up every week.
According to this study:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0006320713003522
We systematically derived an estimate of bird mortality for U.S. monopole turbines by applying inclusion criteria to compiled studies, identifying correlates of mortality, and utilizing a predictive model to estimate mortality along with uncertainty.
Despite measures taken to increase analytical rigor, the studies we used may provide a non-random representation of all data; requiring industry reports to be made publicly available would improve understanding of wind energy impacts. Nonetheless, we estimate that between 140,000 and 328,000 (mean = 234,000) birds are killed annually by collisions with monopole turbines in the contiguous U.S.
We found support for an increase in mortality with increasing turbine hub height and support for differing mortality rates among regions, with per turbine mortality lowest in the Great Plains. Evaluation of risks to birds is warranted prior to continuing a widespread shift to taller wind turbines. Regional patterns of collision risk, while not obviating the need for species-specific and local-scale assessments, may inform broad-scale decisions about wind facility siting.
The blades are moving much faster than they appear to be.
“Deforestation in Brazil and Indonesia”
Good save!
Even if the windmill number is higher it's still nothing compared to the other things. Yeah, wind power is stupid but it's not quite the bird killer it's made out to be.
PING
Wind farms killed at least 67 eagles in last five years
SOURCE:
https://www.nbcnews.com/science/wind-farms-killed-least-67-eagles-last-five-years-8C11133124
( This report was September 2013 )
EXCERPT:
Wind energy facilities have killed at least 67 golden and bald eagles in the last five years, but the figure could be much higher, according to a new scientific study by government biologists.
The research represents one of the first tallies of eagle deaths attributed to the nation’s growing wind energy industry, which has been a pillar of President Barack Obama’s plans to reduce the pollution blamed for global warming. Wind power releases no air pollution.
But at a minimum, the scientists wrote, wind farms in 10 states have killed at least 85 eagles since 1997, with most deaths occurring between 2008 and 2012, as the industry was greatly expanding. Most deaths — 79 — were golden eagles that struck wind turbines. One of the eagles counted in the study was electrocuted by a power line.
The vice president of the American Bird Conservancy, Mike Parr, said the tally was “an alarming and concerning finding.”
ANOTHER culprit is BUILDINGS WITH MIRRORED WINDOWS. I once worked in such a building AND EVERY MORNINGS ONE OF THE GUARDS WAS TASKED WITH WALKING AROUND THE BUILDING AND PICKING UP DEAD BIRDS THAT HAD CRASHED INTO THE WINDOWS AT FULL SPEED, not realizing a building was there.
At the base of another such building I once worked in, I found TWO DEAD HUMMINGBIRDS SIDE-BY-SIDE AT THE BASE OF THE ENTRANCE, just below the building's mirrored window facing.
SAD! I damn near cried as I buried them. Beautiful and colorful males in their Spring colors.
(Once I spotted a Blue & Gold macaw flying into someone's backyard. I was 13. I walked up to their front door and told them a Macaw was in their backyard, in a tree. WHO ANSWERED THE DOOR? NONE OTHER THAN ARTHUR LAFFER and he invited me inside to view his EXOTIC BIRD COLLECTION!!!! AWESOME BECAUSE HE ALSO HAD A RARE HYACINTH MACAW!!! TRUE STORY!!!!
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L:OL- I tell my nieces and nephews that all the time- they look at me like I am weird lol
I have noticed a steep decline in birds over the last few years- could be any number of reasons, but maybe this has something to do with it too-
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