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How many birds are killed by windmills and other green energy projects?

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However, in this post, I’d like to lay out the basic numbers as we pretend to know them about overall bird mortality, human related causes of mortality, and somewhere in there I’ll note that the number of birds that are killed by windmills is so small that it says “zero” on my pie chart.

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Feather Trails: A Journey of Discovery Among Endangered Birds–A Book Review

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The tiercels (young Peregrines) must deal with Golden Eagles, Ravens, adult Peregrines, and foxes; they must also learn to navigate the skies and make their own kills, luckily these skills appear to be innately learned. Coyotes took carrion from young Condors and then killed the weakest ones. It’s not easy.

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Birding Hongbenghe, Yunnan

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A Barred Cuckoo-Dove showed somewhat atypical behavior or had not read its eBird entry about it being “seldom seen out in the open … quick to flee when approached” Of course, Hongbenghe, Yunnan is quite far away from Chicago. ” Some superstition surely should be supported.

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Flock to Marion

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Hannah Buschert was first exposed to birds and birding during a required ornithology course at Oregon State University and she quickly caught the birding bug. The seal hunters accidentally introduced mice to Marion, as was the case for many islands around the world. Marion has a fascinating history with invasive species.

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Can Nature Take Care of Itself?

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When they called our state agency, they were told to “let nature take its course.” Inserts in rodent poisons that assure the public they will not kill anything but the offending rats or mice pedal the same questionable claims as those of the snake oil salesmen of bygone days. People passed the eagle often.

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Brouwerij Verhaeghe: Duchesse de Bourgogne

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But in the Middle Ages, it was often conducted on horseback, a practice that entails its own hazards – and on at least one occasion, this combination proved deadly enough to alter the course of history. In fact, by all accounts, Mary adored sport and was an avid equestrienne, hunter, and falconer. A portrait of Mary (ca.

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On SPECIESISM, by Joan Dunayer

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Whenever the media report that someone has killed "an endangered animal" or "an endangered species," they too confuse an individual with a species. Hunters kill members of endangered species. In some sense, of course, many (perhaps most) humans don't know right from wrong. Smoke, eat, and drink themselves to death?