Sentences with phrase «bird deaths»

The problem of bird deaths at solar power farms is a complex one.

They're addressing the nighttime strikes, but more bird deaths actually occur during the day.

The estimates are much higher than the hundreds of millions of annual bird deaths previously attributed to cats.

These changes help explain why bird deaths have increased since the late 1990s.

The local opposition group have written about bird deaths.

«This is somewhere between five and 10 times the highest number of bird deaths we've seen before,» she said.

Last year, Smallwood was in the news when he published a paper that put annual bird deaths from wind power in the United States in 2012 at 573,000, well over previous estimates.

Sustainability Victoria in a document titled «Wind energy myths and facts» of May 2007 reported 1.2 bird deaths per turbine per year at the Codrington Wind Farm.

And in answer to the argument some have made that a broad interpretation of the MBTA could lead to such absurd results as convictions for bird deaths caused by automobiles, airplanes, and plate glass windows, the Moon Lake court pointed out that to obtain a guilty verdict, the government must prove proximate causation.

Bird deaths associated with wind turbines.

Predation by owned and feral cats causes roughly 100 to 350 million bird deaths annually.

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But Parr said, «The problem with offshore turbines is that it's virtually impossible to know and track over time what impact they're having (on bird deaths) because any birds that get struck will fall directly into the ocean and be washed away by the currents or get eaten by sharks.»

In response to concerns about increasing turbine - related bird deaths, FWS issued new voluntary guidelines in March 2012 for wind developers to minimize harm to birds and their habitats.

A 20 percent share of U.S. capacity, a figure that the American Wind Energy Association forwarded some years ago in congressional hearings (see above), would equate to 880,000 cumulative bird deaths.

It may seem like all the recent mass bird deaths add up to catastrophic numbers of animals killed, but compared to how many birds are killed every year in ones and twos as they collide with buildings, towers, et cetera, it's a drop in the bucket.

The researchers found that warm waters and algae — both of which have become more frequent over the years — tended to precede bird deaths, likely because they promoted the growth of botulism toxin - producing bacteria.

In a USGS program, volunteers tracked bird deaths along Lake Michigan from 2010 to 2013 to discover what conditions lead to large die - offs.

DeWoody said that wind energy generators can receive permits that allow a certain number of unintended bird deaths.

Utah wildlife specialists said bird deaths tied to West Nile virus were unusual in wintertime in Utah since mosquitoes - the primary vector - are not usually active during colder months.

Duration of infectious period (Fig 4D) was taken as the time from when viral titres first exceeded this threshold until bird death.

When asked why there were no consequences for the Ivanpah bird deaths, Nedd claimed he did not know enough about the program to talk about it and had no specifics.

Daniel Andrews» wind farm plan will add to bird deaths Herald Sun Terry McCrann 25 July 2016 LAST week Premier Daniel Andrews made a very big deal of launching a new wind farm near Dundonnell in Victoria's southwest.

al. list bird deaths «per MW», presumably meaning per installed MW.

The ABC petition was filed on February 12, 2015 and includes substantial revisions to an earlier petition filed by ABC in December 2011 that also called for wind industry regulatory action that would reduce the projected 1.4 - 2 million bird deaths expected to be caused by the industry when it reaches projected build out levels.

A look at the causes of bird deaths illustrates that climate change (and by extension, fossil fuels) has become a major threat to birds, after cats and power lines.

Studies have shown that wind turbines are a relatively minor cause of bird deaths compared to the other ways we humans kill birds (windows, wires, vehicles, pesticides and letting Kitty out the door), but bat mortality is a real concern in the Appalachian Mountains.

She writes about Chicago's new LEED Platinum FBI Headquarters, which brought in Annette Prince of the Chicago Bird Collision Monitors to help reduce bird deaths at the building.

At MSU what other pesticide was getting widespread campus application, coinciding with the onset of those many bird deaths, at that troublesome time?

On a field trip for his ornithology class, it was I who found the poisoned immature horned lark that was noted in Wallace's publication (about his investigation of manifold bird deaths on campus)-- a publication relied upon by Rachel Carson when she penned the book, Silent Spring.

Predation on Birds Righthand puts the figure for annual bird deaths attributed to feral cats at «around 480 million.»

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Quoting from a California Energy Commission study: «In a summary of avian impacts at wind turbines by Benner et al. (1993) bird deaths per turbine per year were as high as 309 in Germany and 895 in Sweden.»

Experts agree that habitat loss, pollution, collisions with buildings and cars, and other human - led activities account for far more bird deaths than cat predation.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service estimates that collisions with wind turbines, unfortunately, cause approximately 174,000 bird deaths annually (FWS 2016).

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It provides recommendations on designing structures that minimize bird deaths and is especially helpful to those looking to apply voluntary guidelines or mandatory standards for buildings.

In regard to turbine - related bird deaths, a study by Alfred Manville, with the Division of Migratory Bird Management of the USFWS, estimates that «wind turbines may kill 40,000 or more birds annually nationwide, the majority in California.»

The company will also have to apply for an eagle take permit and draft a plan to reduce eagle and bird deaths at its four wind farms in Wyoming.

Owners of pet birds should refer to the CDC website table of bird deaths from WN virus between 1999 and 2007.