| Re: Wind turbines
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Wind & Bird Strikes
' The anti-wind farm lobby has been making much of bird strikes in recent months- following the discovery of the remains of a red kite, near a wind farm in Wales (see Observer 25/1/04). It’s a rare species, even rarer nowadays since, for example, according to the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, more than a third of the red kite population in the north of Scotland had been illegally poisoned between 1989 and 1998. By contrast, according to the BWEA, wind turbine surveys have found that bird strikes are in general around one per turbine per year. That’s not surprising. Birds tend to avoid moving objects and wind turbines are essentially bird scarers-except perhaps when they are not moving. Then they are more like power lines which birds sometimes hit. However care has to be taken to avoid migratory routes where large numbers can flock. ' |