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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]He sounded off his rocker and senile today.

All his ramblings about fields of dead birds because of windmills ... what? And then don't kill a bald eagle because windmills ... huh?

Weird guy.

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DP. Here's my small little PSA for the day.

Trump is a dangerous wack job. But there is an issue with windmills killing endangered birds on migration. Certainly not fields of endangered birds like he's claiming, and nobody thinks windmills are wiping out the Bald Eagle. But in combination with the outdoor cats and land development it all adds up.

Still, the windmill people are on it. For example, there are sensors that shut the windmills down temporarily when they detect incoming eagles or whatever. New windmill projects usually need local/state approval to ensure they're not in key migration flight paths, and the bird groups always show up when there's a potential problem.

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PS. Bald Eagles again. Do you want to know the real problem eagles and raptors face? Lead bullets and lead fishing tackle. Many raptors eat carcasses left behind by hunters, and those carcasses are contaminated by led bullets. Bald Eagles mostly eat fish but they will also scavenge carrion. There have been bills to outlaw lead bullets, but because they're slightly more expensive than (equally effective) alternatives, republicans always vote them down.

Nearly half of Bald Eagles suffer from lead poisoning. Lead is a neurotoxin and it's a horrible death. https://apnews.com/article/science-health-animals-birds-bald-eagles-8aa5cb2aa77fe3d045cd72a724376e3c[/quote]

Considering bald eagle populations are pretty close to what they are estimate to have been in the early 1800s (and a 20,000% increase since the 60s, which I like better than saying 200x as many), they're doing fine. Also, not something people realize, but the Conservation Reserve Program (ag set-aside for highly erodible land, which gets planted in cover drops--I own some planted in native prairie grasses, which stay green and healthy even in severe drought years) increases habitat, raptor populations in general have grown where I own that land.

Anyway:

Other sources of electricity are also more lethal for birds than wind energy. [b]A 2012 study found that wind projects kill 0.269 birds per gigawatt-hour of electricity produced, compared to 5.18 birds killed per gigawatt-hour of electricity from fossil fuel projects[/b].6 That’s in part due to collisions with equipment (wind turbines aren’t the only energy infrastructure birds can fly into), but mostly because of the environmental impact of fossil fuels. Coal mining has torn down forests and destroyed habitat, and burning coal produces air pollution tied to acid rain and mercury contamination, which scientists have linked to bird health impacts like birth defects. But when it comes to bird deaths, the most significant impact from fossil fuels is their contribution to climate change, which scientists expect will be extremely dangerous for birds. The National Audubon Society estimates that about two-thirds of bird species in North America are at increased risk of extinction due to rising temperatures and changes to the habitat where they live.7
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