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Index of Subjects I'll see if I can find a link later but I read an article last week about man-made causes of bird deaths in North America. It claimed 200,000,000 birds are killed by outside cats each year in North America and 23,000 birds are killed by wind turbines (.001% of cat deaths). Office building were also far more deadly for birds than wind turbines but not as much as cats. Keith Lowe -----Original Message----- From: naturens-owner@chebucto.ns.ca [mailto:naturens-owner@chebucto.ns.ca] On Behalf Of Marg Millard Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2015 9:19 AM To: naturens Subject: [NatureNS] wind turbines Last evening I attended a meeting about renewable sources of energy, and storage of electricity. Very interesting. I am curious about these structures. Do we have any idea now how they are affecting the bird population? There was talk of numbers increasing and their height and size growing.... my understanding is the peak time for them to run is at night as that is when we have maximum wind and as battery storage is improved there will be more and more of them. I actually don't mind them visually, but I remember doing a land survey on PEI (in Southport just at the end of the causeway from Charlottetown) back in the 70's and It was a disaster for the birds. Has there been an improvement in design, is someone working toward that end, some warning system to protect the birds somehow. I should have asked this at the meeting but well, I loose my train of thought very quickly and probably wouldn't have made any sense. Marg Millard 19 White Point 2 Rd., White Point, Queens Co., R.R. # 1 Hunts Point, Nova Scotia , Canada B0T 1G0 (902)683-2393 MargMillard.ca
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