Wind turbine kills rare bird

[Scion]

Dave Liquorice put finger to keyboard:

To be fair to the bird, although it has seen hundreds of a wind turbines before it has probably never seen one actually going round before.

[Tim+]

Well it has lots of unpopulated windy land but precious few consumers within economic reach.

Little point in generating buckets of power where it isn't needed.

Tim

[polygonum]

But buckets are probably a cheaper way to store power than plastic bags

500 metres below the surface of the sea. How much do you get in a five gallon galvanised one?

[Bob Eager]

[whisky-dave]

It's the govenrments fault, did you see any H&S notices about the turbine rotating and in what direction. Would it have been visible to this poor unfortumate immigrant, should we not have warning notices in it's own language.

Anyway birds are a real pain didn;t one of themm take out the LHC by dropping a croissant down a hole. I suggest we ban them. :)

[Geoff Pearson]

The RSPB didn't find any such sprinklings.

[Clive George]

Everybody keeps pointing out that wind doesn't generate "buckets" of power. It might not be the right place for a GW turbine array, but it's a good place for a few MW of power - enough for a few thousand homes.

[Tim Streater]

What, 7 x 24 you mean?

[Dave Liquorice]

I wouldn't trust the RSPB to find a bird in a populated aviary. Another "corporate charity" like the RSPCA.

[The Other Mike]

168 homes is pushing it...

[Matty F]

New Zealand has lots of birds that can't fly, such as the Kiwi and the Moa. So they are quite safe from wind turbines, and were very happy for million s of years walking around on the ground until people imported rats, weasels , stoats, cats and dogs. It's just as well the Moa couldn't fly since it's 12 feet high and would destroy a turbine if it hit one. However the Moa mi ght be struck by a low turbine. Maybe that's why we have not seen any Moa f or a while.

[fred]

a. So they are quite safe from wind turbines, and were very happy for milli ons of years walking around on the ground until people imported rats, wease ls, stoats, cats and dogs. It's just as well the Moa couldn't fly since it 's 12 feet high and would destroy a turbine if it hit one. However the Moa might be struck by a low turbine. Maybe that's why we have not seen any Moa for a while.

It was probably trying to get away from the 80 twitchers. Came to Harris fo r a quiet holiday and next thing was being spied on by 80 loonies.