Almost 7 million birds perish at communication towers in North America each year
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Re: Almost 7 million birds perish at communication towers in North America each year
#2That is a tragically large number, and the solution seems easy enough to implement. Activism is the likely missing ingredient. Something needs to be done.
Re: Almost 7 million birds perish at communication towers in North America each year
#3It's a bit odd that we hear a lot more about the ~300k birds killed annually by windmills than 7 million killed by communication towers (I didn't even know about this one). I would guess because windmills are a hotter political issue.
Re: Almost 7 million birds perish at communication towers in North America each year
#4That is a tragically large number, and the solution seems easy enough to implement. Activism is the likely missing ingredient. Something needs to be done.
It is birds. Not humans. More humans properly perish from lack of communication.
Screw the birds. Humans are better.
Re: Almost 7 million birds perish at communication towers in North America each year
#5That is a tragically large number, and the solution seems easy enough to implement. Activism is the likely missing ingredient. Something needs to be done.
It is birds. Not humans. More humans properly perish from lack of communication. Screw the birds. Humans are better.
Fortunately we don't have to choose! We can make the red lights more blinky, apparently.
Re: Almost 7 million birds perish at communication towers in North America each year
#6That is a tragically large number, and the solution seems easy enough to implement. Activism is the likely missing ingredient. Something needs to be done.
I didn't see a solution mentioned?
Re: Almost 7 million birds perish at communication towers in North America each year
#7It's a bit odd that we hear a lot more about the ~300k birds killed annually by windmills than 7 million killed by communication towers (I didn't even know about this one). I would guess because windmills are a hotter political issue.
And that pales in comparison to the number of birds killed by glass. Estimates of 100 million to 1 billion birds annually in the US alone. Every time I hear bird-deaths as an argument against windmills I want to scream until I die.
[1]http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4134773/ns/us_news-environment/t...
Re: Almost 7 million birds perish at communication towers in North America each year
#8That is a tragically large number, and the solution seems easy enough to implement. Activism is the likely missing ingredient. Something needs to be done.
I didn't see a solution mentioned?
"Longcore estimated that changing the steady-burning lights on the 4,500 towers greater than 490 feet tall (about 6 percent of the total) could reduce mortality about 45 percent, or about 2.5 million birds. The study also recommended that businesses share towers to reduce their number and build more freestanding towers to reduce the need for guy wires."
edit: After I posted this I realized you may be talking about the Activism component mentioned above? Not sure.
Re: Almost 7 million birds perish at communication towers in North America each year
#9It's a bit odd that we hear a lot more about the ~300k birds killed annually by windmills than 7 million killed by communication towers (I didn't even know about this one). I would guess because windmills are a hotter political issue.
And that pales in comparison to the number of birds killed by glass. Estimates of 100 million to 1 billion birds annually in the US alone. Every time I hear bird-deaths as an argument against windmills I want to scream until I die. [1] http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4134773/ns/us_news-environment/t...
Going further, the number of birds killed for human consumption is even greater: 8.9 billion chickens in the US per year.
Re: Almost 7 million birds perish at communication towers in North America each year
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
It is birds. Not humans. More humans properly perish from lack of communication. Screw the birds. Humans are better.
Fortunately we don't have to choose! We can make the red lights more blinky, apparently.
7 million dead birds seems like it would be easy to video/photograph. Choosing to forego documentation that supports these claims has to be intentional.