Comments on: What is the real impact of cats, windmills, and other things on birds? https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/10/18/what-is-the-real-impact-of-cats-windmills-and-other-things-on-birds/ Wed, 06 Dec 2017 04:19:09 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: MadScientist https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/10/18/what-is-the-real-impact-of-cats-windmills-and-other-things-on-birds/#comment-495475 Sun, 21 Oct 2012 06:44:00 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=13779#comment-495475 I’m still betting high-rise buildings kill more birds than wind turbines do. Then there are the airplanes on takeoff and landing. My list of things to ban is getting longer: cats, skyscrapers, airplanes, helicopters, humans …

Oh – does the dead bird count include all those chickens I get from Frank Perdue?

]]> By: sailor https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/10/18/what-is-the-real-impact-of-cats-windmills-and-other-things-on-birds/#comment-495474 Fri, 19 Oct 2012 00:11:36 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=13779#comment-495474 I think you are right, bats are a bigger problem. http://www.fort.usgs.gov/BatsWindmills/
Which reminds me when I was driving in he UK recently I saw these high fishnetty things going high above highways. Apparently they are to provide bats that follow hedges a continuity from one side of the road to the other. I thought it was cool. You can see an article about them here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bat_bridge

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/10/18/what-is-the-real-impact-of-cats-windmills-and-other-things-on-birds/#comment-495473 Thu, 18 Oct 2012 23:53:57 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=13779#comment-495473 That’s an interesting discussion as well.

]]> By: vhutchison https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/10/18/what-is-the-real-impact-of-cats-windmills-and-other-things-on-birds/#comment-495472 Thu, 18 Oct 2012 23:36:41 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=13779#comment-495472 I realize that this discussion is mostly about birds, but those studying kills at wind farms in Oklahoma tell me that more bats than birds are found dead near the wind turbines and that some species of bats appear to be hatrmed more than others.

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