Sentences with phrase «bird and bats»

Given the numbers of birds and bats killed at wind turbines, there is a great urgency to better understand the movements of airborne animals.

Yet, recent studies highlight that so - called green energy, such as wind energy, may come at environmental costs, for example when wind turbines kill birds and bats.

The impact of wind turbines on wildlife, most notably on birds and bats, has been widely document and studied.

While wind energy does not produce any emissions of air pollutants, wind turbines can create air disturbances, noise, or hazards for birds and bats.

Additionally, research into wildlife behavior and advances in wind turbine technology have helped to reduce bird and bat deaths.

Based on studies in birds and bats, the team had expected the exact opposite.

Just higher electrical rates, destroyed rural health and communities, and hundreds of thousands of dead birds and bats.

There also are concerns about bird and bat fatalities with wind technology, although there may be radar systems that can slow wind turbines as birds approach.

Even the adverse effects of climate change and renewable energy policies on jobs, economic growth, human health and welfare, and bird and bat populations receive little attention.

The longer - lived animals are also the smarter ones, or the bigger ones, or the ones like birds and bats that evolved adaptations such as wings to make their lives safer.

The most severe reaction by far was observed among birds and bats, which can therefore be seen as indicators of land - use intensity.

Birds and bats then spread the seeds and pollen of these remarkable plants.

There is also a wildlife pond and bird and bat boxes.

100 times more birds and bats are killed by house cats than wind farms.

Some environmentalists oppose wind power, concerned that the clusters of giant turbines used to produce it could threaten birds and bats.

It never will because this visual truth about the wind industry's ongoing bird and bat genocide would be revealed.

We've seen the reports of turbines catching fire and the reports of bird and bat kills.

Studies have documented that wind energy facilities kill birds and bats.

Until recently, there were three main issues regarding the possible downsides of wind power: bird and bat deaths, cost, and disrupting the appearance of natural landscapes.

One prominent example of convergence is the formation of wings in birds and bats.

More seriously, opponents cite concerns about birds and bats.

This virtually ensures that small birds and bats are removed and / or eaten.

Studies also show with certainty that given good physical condition, large numbers of migratory birds and bats cross the lake, many of them making the long journey after stopping at the shoreline to rest and feed.»

And don't forget the environmental disaster caused by millions of acres of solar farms destroying bird and wildlife habits, to say nothing of the millions of birds and bats slaughtered by windmills.

In Germany, where a few wind farms have been loosely monitored for bird and bat mortality, the government has disclosed the number of carcasses reported so far: 69 eagles, 186 kites, 192 buzzards, 13 harriers, 59 falcons, 12 hawks, 7 ospreys, plus hundreds more birds of all sizes and even more bats (2).

The slaughter of millions of birds and bats annually by US wind turbines is a case in point, and when the impacts are considered in the context of the minimal energy produced via these «renewable» technologies, the damage is especially egregious.

Many bird and bat species aren't renewable!

Brendan Ryan (of Suzlon) informed me that they used Brett Lane and Associates of Melbourne for bird and bat monitoring.

(It appears supporting industrial - scale wind turbines that kill birds and bats did not deter the Ontario Liberal government from appointing Ms. Saxe as commissioner of the environment.)

Those recommendations include clearing vegetation around solar towers to make the area less attractive to birds, retrofitting panels and mirrors with designs that help birds realize the solar arrays are not water, suspending operations at key migration times, and preventing birds and bats from roosting and perching at the facilities.

A variety of activities can be enjoyed at the ranch, from fishing in the nearby lake, paddleboating, and clay target shooting to bird and bat watching, jeep tours of the area to view the countryside and wildlife.

I believe there is a simple solution to bird and bat fatalities also, by mounting cheap passive ultrasonic «whistles» on turbine blades, to create a sound warning shield, keeping flying wildlife away from any spinning turbines.

At the same time, the researchers discovered that the three dragonfly species prey upon practically the same species — and that they share their diet with birds and bats which are the dominant vertebrate predators.

«On the largest turbines, researchers continue to use an undersized 75 - meter search radius, even though the much larger turbines are known to catapult birds and bats much further from turbine towers.

Insects are in turn a vital food source for fish, river birds and bats, so where there are healthy insect populations these other species also benefit.

Nectar is a primary food source for many animals but a few, including hummingbirds, honey eaters and sun birds and bats, possess mouthparts specifically designed to slurp up the sweet liquid found in flowers.

To make sure that flying pollinators such as insects, birds and bats come to the flowers to pick up pollen, plants evolved special organs, the nectaries, to attract and reward the animals.

Bees, birds and bats make a huge contribution to the high yields produced by coffee farmers around Mount Kilimanjaro — an example of how biodiversity can pay off.

The lightweight turbine is mounted on multiple legs, cutting down on vibration and stress on the roof, and the rotor design is said to be «bird and bat friendly».

It's human nature, this ongoing collision course that for several decades now has pitted North America's bird and bat lovers against the still somewhat - fledgling — but rapidly growing — wind industry.

o Chopping up or frying millions of birds and bats who encounter wind or solar farms.