Wind turbines also almost never impact bald eagles ?? Really!

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Comment by Jim Wiegand on March 9, 2018 at 6:01pm

Norwegian Ornithological Society (NOF), 9 May 2006 (our translation):

‘SMØLA WIND PARK IS A CATASTROPHE FOR WHITE TAILED EAGLES’

‘Eight months after the Smøla wind park started working and, with pomp and ceremony, was declared open, unfortunately we have to conclude that nine white tailed eagles have been killed by the wind turbines. NOF will demand that the turbines are stopped so that everyone can sit down and undertake a thorough review of the problem before more birds are killed.

The adult female white tailed eagle in the picture was the seventh to be killed in collision with turbines at Smøla wind park.
© Espen Lie Dahl.

‘Unique knowledge

‘NOF sacrificed large resources over several years’ of casework in order to stop the construction of a wind power station on Smøla. Our background material was large; through NOF’s Project White Tailed Eagle NOF possesses unique knowledge on the species’ population and habitat use on Smøla. In addition NOF has considerable understanding of the negative consequences that wind parks can have, especially for raptors. While the authorities and developers used research from wind parks in Denmark and the Netherlands as the basis for their evaluation, NOF went to the large parks in the USA and Spain to check the results from their investigations. We did this in order to find areas with fauna similar to our own, that is with large raptors that actively use wind park areas. Here we found clear evidence that large raptors are hard hit by such developments. When, in addition, we then showed through Project White Tailed Eagle that Smøla has one of the world’s densest breeding populations of white tailed eagles, then the tragic consequences that we see today were inevitable!

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‘Population reduction

‘Of the nine dead white tailed eagles that so far have been found after eight months operation on Smøla, there are six adult, fully fledged birds and three young birds. Last year radio transmitters were attached to six of the young birds on Smøla. Now, less than a year after tagging, three of these have already been found dead. The discovery of six adult birds will also have dramatic consequences for a species with a low breeding rate and a long life span. With over 100 applications for various wind installations along our coast under consideration, of which many are associated with breeding areas for white tailed eagles, we may in a few decades find that the white tailed eagle population is much reduced. Also other species such as golden eagles, horned owl, red-throated diver etc. may easily be victims of the wind turbines’ beating blades.’

 

 

Comment by Jim Wiegand on March 9, 2018 at 5:58pm

This was a case or whatever is was that involved Chris O'neil. I was asked to help.

Comment by Eric A. Tuttle on March 9, 2018 at 5:55pm

If you're speaking of the Bingham Maine Wind Farm, I was not aware that there was a "Legal" case that went on. 

The land, they used there, of which they promised the locals forest jobs, had been cut many years past and to the point that it would have been nearly 75-100 years to see any work in forestry.

That being said, of course, the Eagles were using the near barren land openings for acquiring their prey. Though their nests were much more secluded in forested areas they still had many lakes and ponds within their range from which to fish.

 

Comment by Jim Wiegand on March 9, 2018 at 5:43pm

By the way this information I just posted was supposed to be used in the Bingham wind farm legal case. I also had proof with images of bald eagles regularly using ridge line air spaces far from water. 

Comment by Jim Wiegand on March 9, 2018 at 5:32pm

This is what Greg Alverez conveniently forgot to mention.  With the wind industry's fraudulent research, industry employees hiding carcasses and the USFWS helping the wind industry to both hide and dispose of carcasses, thousands of eagle carcasses have gone unreported. Nondisclosure agreements are keeping this hidden and the Eagle Repository conveniently does not keep records of where all the dead eagles are coming from or the cause of death. Imagine that.  

Information like this is avoided by the industry's shill researchers and hidden by our trusted governments.  Despite what Greg Alverez is paid to say, wind turbines are devastating to Bald eagles. The white-tailed eagle is virtually the same species as the bald eagle.They eat the same foods, forage in the same manner and can even interbreed. Read and remember these words.......... "Since the 68-turbine facility was built, reproductive output has plummeted, with breeding pairs at the site down from 19 to just one."   Phase one became operational September 2002. Phase two opened in September 2005. This story hit in June  2006.       

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/5108666.stm

June 23, 2006, BBC News reported that 9 White-tailed Eagles have been killed at Norway’s Smola Island Wind Energy Facility over a 10-

month period. Smola is located off the Norwegian coast where a key population of Europe’s largest bird or prey resides.

Since the 68-turbine facility was built, reproductive output has plummeted, with breeding pairs at the site down from 19 to just one.

The Royal Society for the Preservation of Bird’s Conservation Director (M. Avery) noted, “So this colony that is very important – was very

important – has been practically wiped out because this wind farm was built in exactly the wrong place

                                                                                        

Comment by Donna Amrita Davidge on March 9, 2018 at 5:28pm

Totally insane like all their propaganda