> Also, no differentiation between 1,000' high midwestern TV
> towers, and 100' high cell towers. Might be interesting to
> see if we're getting piles of bird carcases around cell
> towers.
They don't even get "piles of bird carcasses" around 1000' high
midwestern TV towers. I spent 15 years around a 1200' TV tower
- with strobes - us outside Columbus Ohio through he 80's and
most of the 90's. That tower was responsible for the death of
fewer than 2-3 dozen a year. We would see a couple per month in
the spring and fall with none in the winter and a rare carcass
during the summer months.
For DF&WS's "estimates" to be even in the ballpark, every one of
the estimated 10,000 towers more that 800 feet tall in the US
would have to claim 1000 birds a year ... In my opinion that
number is simply not credible and is probably off by a factor
of at least 10.
73,
... Joe, W4TV
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