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Default "Whirling blades of death"

On Apr 27, 3:53*pm, wrote:
On Tue, 27 Apr 2010 12:29:14 -0700 (PDT), Loogypicker

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Lots of birds. *Lots of raptors. *The enviros were ecstatic about windmills
here for awhile. *But now they want to limit them because of the bird
deaths. *Major problem is they are build in grazing land. *So lots of ground
squirrels that the Golden Eagles and other raptors like for dinner.


Bill, I asked for data, not heresay.


here is one source with links to othershttp://www.abcbirds.org/conservationissues/threats/energyproduction/w...


10,000 to 40,000. Not alot in the grand scheme of things. And only 10%
were "raptors" or birds of prey.