Birdwatchers see rare swift killed by wind turbine

The Telegraph via FARK.COM ^ | 6/27/2013 | Simon Johnson

[Gene Eric]

>> the world’s fastest flying bird

With or without the turbine?

[Hardraade]

Turbine. No afterburner.

[Hardraade]

White-troated Needletail killed by White-collared Needled*cks.

[Trod Upon]

Don’t you hate when the swift hits the fan?

[prisoner6]

You dear FReeper win the best comment award!

[flaglady47]

“Don’t you hate when the swift hits the fan?”

LOL. Excellent.

[glorgau]

Sounds like the punch line to a Monty Python skit.

[JennysCool]

That’s a great, underappreciated movie!

[Jeff Winston]

I agree. I need to see it again. :-)

[R_Kangel]

Gee .... wind turbines with 120 foot long blades traveling at a velocity of 100 mph .... who would have thought that it could actually be hazardous to birds that share the same airspace?

Of course the question begs to be asked ..... If a bird is pulverized by a wind turbine .... and nobody was there to see it ..... did the bird really die? For all of the low information folks out there .... it's a variation of the old "A Tree Falling in the Forest" schtick.

[Maurice Tift]

Oil and gas are certainly more environmentally friendly.

Caribou grazing near oil refinery

The noise from a wind turbine

[SaxxonWoods]

Wind turbines are killing a LOT of bats, and bats eat a LOT of mosquitos, so killing bats helps spread disease.

No, the bats don’t fly into the blades, bats have echolocation ability, as you know. The bats fly past the blades just fine and die when the turbulence crushes their lungs. Probably happens to small birds as well.

Large predator birds are the most prone to flying into the blades.

Wind turbines also put out a vibration that disturbs sleep in humans out to distances which vary with terrain and other factors. The current regulations for wind turbines allow the fans to be too close to housing.

There’s more eye-opening info if you do a little research.

Wind is a very dirty energy.

[rawcatslyentist]

Wind turbines DIRECTLY EFFECT GLOBAL WEATHER!

They slow the wind speed and change weather patterns!

Once again the road is paved with good intentions! The destination never changes though!

[goron]

I thought liberals liked Eagles?

[raybbr]

Good grief! Another post with dialog without naming the movie or play or whatever. Posters who do this should be banned for a month.

[BCW]

There will be casualties, but Green Energy must go forward...like grinding up hippies and liberals for cleaner air and compost would be a great start!

[LucyT]

. . . . Check out # 32.

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[Flick Lives]

There is something symbolic in the death of this country and the picture of a dead eagle near a wind farm.

[Elle Bee]

ha ... just more unintended consequence

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[catfish1957]

Well at least now they can get some good close up shots of it without it flying off

I tried telling a left wing bird watcher once that this was how Audubon studied and painted his legendary works, except with a gun. The whacko said quite bluntly.... "Audubon wouldn't harm a feather on a bird"