Hey June, don't make it bad (but you will) [Mini-Rant]

[kaylasdad99]

@Jackmannii

I am fed up with birds.

They awaken me with their brainless squawking before dawn. The nasty little barn swallows who built a nest on my porch ceiling fan swoop around me emitting warning chirps if I am within 150 feet of their rotten incontinent nestlings. They have even enlisted help from their relatives in harassing me. The porch is getting inundated with bird crap.

They better goddam well fly away soon, or they get the hose.

Maybe you ought to put up a windmill…

@mikecurtis

The ex President’s penchant for hyperbole aside; it is a problem…

It is unfortunate then that wind energy has its own dark side: thousands of birds and bats are killed annually by wind turbines. Causes of death include collision and barotrauma—internal injuries caused by exposure to rapid pressure changes near the trailing edges of moving blades

However it’s a matter of degrees…

If we’re looking at the bigger picture, wind power’s impact on bird populations is relatively small when compared with other human-related sources of avian mortality. Numerous studies demonstrate that far more bird deaths are caused by collisions with buildings (676 million), vehicles (214 million), and power lines (32 million) in the United States. (It should be taken into consideration, though, that birds killed by wind turbines have historically been of higher conservation value than the robins and sparrows killed by non-wind-related sources.)

Cats actually top the list when it comes to annual bird deaths in the United States.