That is very sad, I wonder how many birds come to a sad ending because of these wind generators... good of the guy to rescue the vulture, I wonder if it survived with veterinary help? One can only hope. ♡
Clean power is the wind on turbines...Sun on the collectors. Certainly not nuclear or fueled turbines. But, I shouldn't go politically.... What was nice was seeing the vulture getting some form of attention. A rarity whether or not a success. That is clean energy.
To me the curious thing is....why was the bird flying so close to the blades to begin with?
Often the difficulty is, where there is a good wind for a wind farm, there is a ridgeline or other such places that funnel the prevailing winds. These also happen to be the places where raptors migrate through since they use the winds to expend less energy on migration. So coastal windfarms and ones on ridgelines often cause high amounts of raptor mortality. They get sucked into the turbines. I have seen a vulture get sucked into one, but fortunately for him, he did not get hit by a blade. A lucky bird. It is a tough call, since wind turbines can produce much cleaner energy... I just wish they would consider raptor hot-spots for migration and turn them off on peak migration days. Which would only be a few a year. I was also glad to see he got help, not sure if he will fly again with that injury though...
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That is very sad, I wonder how many birds come to a sad ending because of these wind generators... good of the guy to rescue the vulture, I wonder if it survived with veterinary help? One can only hope. ♡
They don't say if he makes it, or given survival will ever fly again. It makes you think though, what is really clean power??
-Corby
Clean power is the wind on turbines...Sun on the collectors.
Certainly not nuclear or fueled turbines. But, I shouldn't go politically....
What was nice was seeing the vulture getting some form of attention. A rarity whether or not a success. That is clean energy.
To me the curious thing is....why was the bird flying so close to the blades to begin with?
Boneman,
Often the difficulty is, where there is a good wind for a wind farm, there is a ridgeline or other such places that funnel the prevailing winds. These also happen to be the places where raptors migrate through since they use the winds to expend less energy on migration. So coastal windfarms and ones on ridgelines often cause high amounts of raptor mortality. They get sucked into the turbines. I have seen a vulture get sucked into one, but fortunately for him, he did not get hit by a blade. A lucky bird. It is a tough call, since wind turbines can produce much cleaner energy... I just wish they would consider raptor hot-spots for migration and turn them off on peak migration days. Which would only be a few a year. I was also glad to see he got help, not sure if he will fly again with that injury though...
-Corby
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