http://blog.birdguides.com/2013/06/white-throated-needletail.html
Rare to the British Isles, that is. Sorry, bit misleading there.
Rare to the British Isles, that is. Sorry, bit misleading there.
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A very, very rare bird suffers death by wind turbine.
- Thread starter Bushwhacker
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Y'know ? you have to wonder how, in all the airspace in all of the world, that one wee bird manages to find on windturbine blade 
Is there some weird mesmeric magnestism involved ? and wasn't it just so timely that some adroit wee reported managed to find out about it too ?
Nothing 'trumped' up about it.
M
Is there some weird mesmeric magnestism involved ? and wasn't it just so timely that some adroit wee reported managed to find out about it too ?
Nothing 'trumped' up about it.
M
resnikov
Bushcrafter (boy, I've got a lot to say!)
Whilst any wildlife death attributed to man is a shame, maybe that species of bird is just not that bright (whole of the sky to fly in and it hits a blade) and its evolution taking its cause.
Or maybe it had a heart attack in flight, then flew in to the blade. So it was going to die already but we are just blaming us?
Or maybe it had a heart attack in flight, then flew in to the blade. So it was going to die already but we are just blaming us?
Wasn't necessarily a "strike" that caused death. Could've been pressure variance LINK, Bats are especially prone to this and I imagine that a wee birdy could face similar problems.
Bloody useless things anyway wind turbines - total window-dressing.
resnikov
Bushcrafter (boy, I've got a lot to say!)
Thats why I love the site, you learn something new every time you visit.
Got disagree there, but lets not get in to an argument and just agree to disagree.
Ehh but Bushwhacker, if we are banning the Patois, how will we understand your strange dialect?
Toddy
I don't think this "trumped up" as such. A rare visitor has been reported on the birding sites I frequent and had no doubt attracted a lot of interest. I'm also sure the bird will have followed the insects it eats and would not understand the circular geometry the turbine blades make.
Beautiful bird.
I don't think this "trumped up" as such. A rare visitor has been reported on the birding sites I frequent and had no doubt attracted a lot of interest. I'm also sure the bird will have followed the insects it eats and would not understand the circular geometry the turbine blades make.
Beautiful bird.
I can always remember supervising a job up in Cowdenbeath. Couldn't understand a word anybody was saying. Christ knows what I was nodding, smiling and agreeing to!
Takes about a week to get your ears to really 'hear' Cowdenbeath, I find
Nice folks though
M
They were friendly enough, just couldn't understand a thing. It was like they were speaking in tongues.
Back to the birdie, doesn't it look just like a Stealth bomber in profile?
Classic aerodynamic tear-drop shape, I wonder if it suffers from lack of manoeuvrability, hence the crash.
I like playing this game. House Martins always look like Red Arrows to me and Buzzards have got to be some kind of bomber.
P
Passer
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Whilst any death of a uncommon bird( to us) is regrettable it certainly isn`t unusual. Being in the wrong region( this bird should have been much further East), make such birds susceptible to predation and the like.
Some species of swifts are known to roost on the wing, although I couldn`t be sure regarding needletails. This would make for a real hazard if in the vicinity of turbines.
Another thing to consider, for this bird to arrive here, rather than it`s natural range, suggests possible disorientation. Would it be able to find the correct prey items to survive, or even find it`s way back to it`s wintering quarters.
It`s possible this bird was on borrowed time.
Some species of swifts are known to roost on the wing, although I couldn`t be sure regarding needletails. This would make for a real hazard if in the vicinity of turbines.
Another thing to consider, for this bird to arrive here, rather than it`s natural range, suggests possible disorientation. Would it be able to find the correct prey items to survive, or even find it`s way back to it`s wintering quarters.
It`s possible this bird was on borrowed time.
A bird capable of flying all the way from southern Asia or even Australia to it's breeding grounds further North, couldn't avoid a wind turbine.?......must have been a dud one.
Was a necropsy carried out to confirm that the wind turbine was indeed instrumental in the birds demise ? were there any witnesses to this drama ?......or was the corpse merely found at the base of a turbine & hasty conclusions were made ?.
Was a necropsy carried out to confirm that the wind turbine was indeed instrumental in the birds demise ? were there any witnesses to this drama ?......or was the corpse merely found at the base of a turbine & hasty conclusions were made ?.
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I wonder how many rare birds would have to be killed by wind turbines before people would start to question the wisdom of said turbines ?
Had this bird had been killed by fracking, would its death have been met with so much shrugging?
Had this bird had been killed by fracking, would its death have been met with so much shrugging?
