Sentences with phrase «bird mortality»

Understanding the value of imperfect science from national estimates of bird mortality from window collisions.

Rather, we should be demanding that the industry be held accountable for bird mortality once and for all!

Still a completely unacceptable number that makes cats the top cause of direct bird mortality in the country.

They cite bird mortality as an unacceptable side effect of wind - generated power.

We need to take action to eliminate all unnecessary causes of bird mortality, including pet and feral cats, and give our birds a chance to survive otherwise we will lose species.

In 2013, Environment Canada published a series of papers describing bird mortality from various human activities.

The study, which is described as the most comprehensive analysis of information on the issue of outdoor cat predation, found that bird and mammal mortality caused by outdoor cats is much higher than has been widely reported, with annual bird mortality now estimated to be 1.4 to 3.7 billion and mammal mortality likely 6.9 — 20.7 billion individual animals.

(2) Duchamp has always maintained that earlier studies, made when bird mortality at windfarms wasn't such a hot potatoe, were more credible than recent ones.

Wind proponents have long discounted the carnage by pointing at other sources of bird mortality including cats, windows, and communications towers [2], but the issue still haunts developers.

Stiles, E., NJAS Works with Coalition to Reduce Bird Mortality from Outdoor Cats.

However, Environment Canada has researched the impact of pesticides on birds, and estimates that pesticides cause between 960,000 and 4.4 million bird mortalities per year.

Rather, we should [demand]... that the industry be held accountable for bird mortality once and for all!»

Bird mortality due to large wind farms is exacerbated by inherent linkages between bird behavior and wind farm siting decisions.

The British public is being misinformed regarding bird mortality at wind farms, denounce Save the Eagles International (STEI) and the World Council for Nature (WCFN).

Bird - Smart wind energy is therefore designed to reduce and redress any unavoidable bird mortality and habitat loss.

I'd say if we're concerned about bird mortality, structures such as power lines and skyscrapers would be better candidates for safety engineering than wind turbines, since they kill far more birds than the turbines do.

Tune in Sunday to Animal Wise Radio, when I'll be on with hosts Mike Fry and Beth Nelson discussing a recently published paper declaring that «predation by house cats is probably the largest human - related source of bird mortality in Canada.»

«There are many human - related causes of bird mortality including buildings, outdoor cats, pesticides, communication towers, automobiles, wind farms, and lead poisoning from spent ammunition and lost fishing tackle.»

In addition, bird mortality data are now considered to be the property of windfarm owners, which means the public no longer has a right to know.

As a result, bird mortality from collisions is escalating every year, especially in areas where turbines and their associated power lines and towers have been poorly sited from the perspective of bird conservation.

«In the UK, wind farms are not being monitored for bird mortality: this is how the issue is being kept from the public's eye.

Then in 2016, Donald Trump offered a more general critique of wind energy noting that wind turbines are «killing all the eagles» despite studies showing that tall buildings, like those built by real estate developers such as Mr. Trump, cause much higher rates of bird mortality than wind turbines do.

In eastern Europe, however, Lineage 2, which emerged in Hungary in 2004, has been responsible for human and bird mortality, particularly in Greece.

Loyd compiled 2,000 hours of video, from 55 cats — and documented just five birds mortalities.

When the 2013 meta - study demonstrated that cats are a greater source of bird mortality than all other human causes combined, Robinson called it «part of a continuing propaganda campaign to vilify cats.»

They also researched cats (and several other human - related causes of bird mortality) and while it's challenging to arrive at accurate figures, they estimate cats, both pet and feral, cause somewhere between 100 and 350 million bird fatalities per year.

(Interestingly, neither USFWS nor ABC mentions the most direct human - caused source of bird mortality — hunting — which may account for 120 million avian deaths annually in the U.S. [5]-RRB-

Released in April by the California Energy Commission, the Ivanpah Avian and Bat Monitoring Plan Annual Report, required by state and federal agencies and prepared by leading environmental consultants HT Harvey and Associates, concluded that migratory bird mortality would be categorized as low.