The Justice Department merely charged them with violations based on
the number of dead birds FWS agents found when they made their last site visit following years of imploring the companies to install nets.
So researchers turned to two different estimation methods — one whereby total mortalities were estimated from the actual
number of dead birds recovered, and another in which information on the geographic extent of the oil slick and seabird densities were used to estimate potential mortalities.
While the report says
the numbers of dead birds and bats are similar to other wind farms in North America...»
Not exact matches
Volunteers for the aptly named AMBLE regularly walked beaches in Door County in Wisconsin, Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore in Michigan, and the Upper Peninsula
of Michigan, recording the
number of sick and
dead birds of different species.
An unusually large
number of birds were found starving and
dead in the sea.
In 2012 turbines killed more bats than
birds, and the
numbers of the
dead were substantial: about 888,000 bats were found on wind farms, compared with 573,000
birds.
On one wall, a
number of birds are collected, in various states
of being: a stuffed specimen photographed by Roni Horn; a
dead budgie in an anonymous flea market photo; Jacopo de» Barbari's 16th - century Sparrowhawk; and Dean's own Ear on a Worm (2017), in which a songbird sits poised on a wire before, in the film's final moment, diving off and vanishing beyond the frame.