"The environmentalists want wind. The wind is blowing today. The whole thing is a hoax. The wind kills our birds"
Me: Keep this idiot talking. Give him every public venue available.
@Armchaircouch I know someone who lives in North Texas, the site of HUGE wind farms.
He said the first few years, it was bad. Birds everywhere on the ground.
However.... as birds do, they are adjusting their migration patterns. Fewer dead birds.
๐ข thatโs so awful ๐
And fascinating thinking the adjusted migration! I wonder if thereโve been studies on that! โฆโbird brainsโ, not so insignificant eh? ;) @Maude
@Armchaircouch We're not talking about adjusting migration hundreds of miles. Sometimes it requires a couple of miles. That's it.
Birds do this anyway when there are catastrophic weather events.
I think with the weather itโs something internal with their biological mechanisms! Iโm not sure where I read that, eitherโฆ
Anywho. Iโm glad they adjust more or less. @Maude
@Armchaircouch @Maude So do buildings.
@Armchaircouch @Maude There's hardly any human activity that doesn't kill birds. Farming decimates habitat. Fossil fuel plants destroy whole biomes. Even the windows of my house, just standing there--birds fly into them. We put up some of those stickers that are supposed to warn birds there's a window there. A finch flew right into one of them.
Sure and our highways in the US allow cars to kill billions of creatures annually too. Therefore we lean on human smarts to alter our human things to reduce or eliminate the rate of death we inflict upon other inhabitants of our planet. :)
Sorry to hear about the finch. @ImagineThat
// @Maude
it sucks. I think I recall studies were they changed the times of the day that they made them active and it reduced the amount of deaths to the bats and birds but I might be wrong there but I swear I think I read that a few years back. @Maude
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/09/16/wind-turbine-bird-death-research/70836306007/