Well, if someone took up the drums in the band, they could remind people to place shades or even lace curtains in the windows to warn birds not to land in the living room, bedroom, kitchen, or anywhere else birds would bang on the windows as the last thing they ever did. I have every window in my house shaded one way or another. I just have to remind my dufus pals and caregivers to not leave them down when they leave the house. People just don't know that windows are dangerous, while ornithologist wannabes simply know to put curtains, metal and pull down shades in every windows, and we forget to educate others. If builders would add shades to their buildings as soon as they go up, it would save a lot of avians. it will get somewhat worse with inflation erasing options normal people have had.
But thanks for the list.
My source on wind turbines shows as follows: "an estimated 554,000 birds of all species were killed by turbines in 2019."
https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ecs2.3531
Before 2009, I lived in the State of Wyoming where there are amazing raptors throughout the state, especially near large lakes throughout the state and up Yellowstone way, starting at Dubois and throughout North/Western states:
Cornell's page on Ospreys (my favorite raptor when we lived in Wyoming for 35 years) gives a good idea where their migratory lands are as follows:
Credits:
Osprey Overview, All About Birds, Cornell Lab of Ornithology
Ospreys are like no other bird in flight. They are the apex of grace in the air. You'd have to see them to appreciate them.
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In or around 2007-2009, I read a report on the travesty on Ospreys that were found beneath windmill farms from Wyoming to northern Texas panhandle. It
said that the Osprey specie was under a terrible threat when some ornithologists reviewed some of the Wind Turbine bird graveyards. It worried me and still does.
The article at Cornell Lab of Ornithology doesn't mention the Wind Turbines, but that article always followed me around because I loved the species for their grace and beauty so.
And because of Ospreys and other victims found on the prairie floor beneath Wind Turbines, I have not been fond of man-made "solutions" in Green solutions to get rid of fossil fuels, while heralding Wind Farms, even though most of them are regularly seen in less populated areas, most of them were built with no knowledge that migratory birds may frequent these "barren" areas between their winter and summer habitats. So I also have an attitude toward mindless green pushers who do not pay attention to the welfare of endangered species and chalk it off to the general nonimportance of things that they didn't think of first. It's funny how that works, but I'm neither laughing nor impressed.
Going Fishing:
Osprey: The Glorious Pursuit of Unbridled Determination Hardcover – November 12, 2021
e360.yale.edu
