White-throated needletail. Spotted in UK 8 times ever. Fasted bird in the world, apparently. Sighted on Hebridean island. Excited bird spotters congregate and.......it flies into a wind turbine and is instantly killed. Hey ho.
http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/camilla-sw ... d-turbine/
Wind-turbine bird sadness.
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Do we know if it was suicide yet?
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Probably, it's pretty bleak up there.
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I hear Elton John is already writing a song about it
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"Pancho Sanza and Me"?Clinton Huxley wrote:I hear Elton John is already writing a song about it
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It will take a few generations for the birds to sort out the ones that avoid the turbines from the ones that aren't going to reproduce much.
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Very agile birds too apparently. Just bad luck I guess.
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From the link: "As Clive Hambler wrote in the Spectator in January, ‘renewables pose a far greater threat to wildlife than climate change’."
WTF?
Someone ought to have a look at where some of Hambler's income comes from.
WTF?
Someone ought to have a look at where some of Hambler's income comes from.
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Maybe if you find an ostrich wedged in there one day....Rum wrote:Very agile birds too apparently. Just bad luck I guess.
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They aren't that common in these parts. Just as well. I've paid a deposit and they are coming to install the buggers on Monday!Clinton Huxley wrote:Maybe if you find an ostrich wedged in there one day....Rum wrote:Very agile birds too apparently. Just bad luck I guess.
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The Cumbrian Ostrich is common but very, very shy........Rum wrote:They aren't that common in these parts. Just as well. I've paid a deposit and they are coming to install the buggers on Monday!Clinton Huxley wrote:Maybe if you find an ostrich wedged in there one day....Rum wrote:Very agile birds too apparently. Just bad luck I guess.
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Hermit wrote:From the link: "As Clive Hambler wrote in the Spectator in January, ‘renewables pose a far greater threat to wildlife than climate change’."
WTF?
Someone ought to have a look at where some of Hambler's income comes from.
Srsly. Wtf kinda claim is that?"A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the man who finds it." ~ H. L. Mencken
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I thought the spine-tailed swift was the fastest bird? 
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We don't know how fast the turbine blade was traveling.JacksSmirkingRevenge wrote:I thought the spine-tailed swift was the fastest bird?
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