[TowerTalk] BBC report on bird kills at towers

[tongaloa]

Recommended reading...
<http://www.hycyber.com/SF/marching_morons.html>

-Bob


Michael Keane, K1MK wrote:

> At 02:09 PM 8/22/03, David Robbins K1TTT wrote:
>
>> I find more birds dead under my big windows than I find around the base
>> of any of the 6 towers here.
>
>
> Not a surprising observation since according to Manville (2001) 
> <http://migratorybirds.fws.gov/issues/towers/abcs.html>:
>
> 100-1000 million birds killed per killed year from collisions with 
> windows
> <http://www.birdscreen.com/Klem_AFO_Collisions1990.pdf>
>
> 100's of million birds killed per year due to feral & domestic cats
>
>  65 million birds killed per killed year due to pesticides per year
>
>   4-5 million birds killed per year from collisions with communication 
> towers
>
> If it's not going to make any difference to the annual kill, why 
> bother with towers?
>