10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 16, 2014
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.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 10, 2021
The changes revolved around something called “incidental take,” which is an activity that harm or kills birds incidental to its purpose. Canada, one of the parties to a treaty with the United States, also stated its concerns. Public comments were overwhelmingly opposed.
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10,000 Birds
JUNE 14, 2022
The company, ESI Energy LLC, built facilities in high-risk locations, failed to obtain permits, and its wind turbines killed approximately 150 eagles. Broadly summarizing, the information alleges that ESI violated the MBTA and the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act by failing to secure permits for several of its facilities in Wyoming.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 4, 2018
We’re less than a week into 2018 and already birds (at least those that migrate in and through the United States) are worse off than they were at the end of last year. A new directive from the current administration wipes out protection engendered by President Obama.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 7, 2023
Its goal was to limit the greedy collecting of birds killed for the plume trade, the bird meat trade (as in the wholesale slaughter of the Passenger Pigeon), and for sport (again, the Passenger Pigeon and declining numbers of waterfowl). Congress and Senate who recognized the need to protect the birds. Is that possible anymore?
4 The Love Of Animals
JUNE 3, 2010
Heartworms are easily controlled by any one of a number of medications designed to kill the worms or repel mosquitoes. Because the illness is mosquito-borne, the best way to avoid it is to kill the insects with something like a Mosquito Magnet or a product with DEET before the mosquitoes have an opportunity to pass on the virus.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 13, 2014
An unknown number of adult tricolors is shot each fall due to their similarity in appearance to red-wings, as red-wings are exempted from protection under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act and are legally shot each fall as they feed on ripening rice.” Therefore the actual numbers of birds killed are grossly underestimated.
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