OK guys, I'll take a poke at this too.... As a long time ham and professional wildlife biologist, I can tell you from personal experience that tall communication towers are lethal to songbirds, and i
And why don't they run into tall trees the same way?? 73 Gary K4FMX _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ TowerTalk mailing list TowerTalk@co
Maybe lighting makes a difference. I wonder if strobe lights and red flashing lights affect some birds differently. Perhaps fog, haze, or other reflective particles in the air make a difference, too.
And, I guess I get to take a poke at this also from the HUMAN side. What do we do step back 200 years to save the birds? I'm real sorry that the great creator didn't see 'ahead' in the great big pict
Author: "K8RI on TowerTalk" <K8RI-on-TowerTalk@tm.net>
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 04:07:56 -0500
We are on a migratory flight path (Midland MI). During a similar time, but in daylight it's quite common to receive traffic advisories from ATC of primary echos on some heading, altitude unknown. Th
Well .. I think most of this dead bird thing is plain HOOOIE .. I have been working on and around towers since the 60s .. and have NEVER seen any avian mortality rates as outlined here. Even spotted
I think Mark makes an excellent point about the autospy (we call it necropsy in the animal world) question. That is, just because a dead bird is found under a tower does not mean the tower killed the