10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

Wind turbines at Altamont Pass in Northern California (a known eagle-fatality site not included in the study); image by Bonita de Boer/Flickr/Creative Commons License. . A recent study has documented a rise in the number of turbine-related eagle deaths in the United States. . News Bald Eagles Golden Eagles windmills'

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Eagles Bald Eagle Industry United States 205

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 18, 2012

Alexander Alvarez of Atmore, Alabama, has pled guilty to “killing migratory birds and selling the feathers on the black market” in a killing spree that dates back to 2006. It’s nice to see laws against killing birds and selling their feathers enforced.

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Alabama Killing Protection Mississippi 157

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 24, 2013

Photo of a Golden Eagle at a Wyoming wind farm by Dina Cappiello/Associated Press. wind-energy company has admitted that its farms have killed birds, and has settled with prosecutors. The case involved the deaths of more than 150 birds, including 14 eagles, at two plants in Wyoming between 2009 and 2013.

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Farming Wyoming Eagles Killing 181

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MARCH 1, 2017

If there’s one common theme to this week’s bird news items, it’s their collective bizarreness: The eagle has landed—on the drone, as France trains birds to take out drones that stray into restricted airspace. So crazy it just might work?

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AUGUST 18, 2018

The Weekly Reader had shocked everyone in class with news of Bald Eagles dying – and humans were to blame! When news later reached our little town (likely through a newspaper) that the bird-killing chemical was to be banned, my environmental activism was born. Fast forward to the next decade and humans were at it again.

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Texas Defenders Of Wildlife Bald Eagle Protest 147

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DECEMBER 4, 2015

In a recent case involving my own facility, an immature bald eagle was hit by a car. People passed the eagle often. 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.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Bald Eagle Rescue Wildlife 189

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JUNE 13, 2017

The Preliminaries : Paragraphs 1-5 identify the issues at a high level: the lawsuit involves a proposed turbine at a facility near Ottawa NWR in Ohio that will allegedly kill birds in violation of federal law. Paragraphs 32-39 set forth an overview of the laws that plaintiffs argue would be violated if the turbine constructed.

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