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Message started by justin_o_guy2 on 10/22/22 at 17:21:15

Title: How did I not know?
Post by justin_o_guy2 on 10/22/22 at 17:21:15

I thought birds just magically flew right on through those swinging blades.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2022/04/09/eagle-turbine-deaths-settlement/

I just Can't BuhLeeve I was So Silly as to think that.

Title: Re: How did I not know?
Post by Eegore on 10/22/22 at 19:44:47

Those aren't Eagles.

https://birdsarentreal.com/

We can play the "look it kills animals" game with almost any technology.

Title: Re: How did I not know?
Post by Serowbot on 10/23/22 at 06:25:57

A billion birds per year die from hitting windows.

Title: Re: How did I not know?
Post by justin_o_guy2 on 10/23/22 at 08:40:47

5046514C54414C57230 wrote:

A billion birds per year die from hitting windows.

Reference?

Title: Re: How did I not know?
Post by Serowbot on 10/23/22 at 11:15:31

Billions of Birds Die Annually From Flying Into Windows — Here’s Why and How to Stop It
https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/billions-of-birds-die-annually-from-flying-into-windows-heres-why-and-how-to

Nearly 1 billion birds die a year colliding into windows in the U.S. Learn how Birmingham Zoo’s Jessie Griswold is helping solve this problem.
https://bhamnow.com/2018/06/03/1-billion-birds-die-a-year-colliding-into-windows/

Birds Hitting Windows Kills A Billion Birds In North America
https://www.wildbirdscoop.com/birds-hitting-windows.html

Title: Re: How did I not know?
Post by justin_o_guy2 on 10/23/22 at 11:38:17

And in my life I've seen fewer than ten.
Gotta get outta that cave more.

Title: Re: How did I not know?
Post by justin_o_guy2 on 10/23/22 at 11:48:44

Apparently cats kill a lot more.
Though I'm not believing many of our big birds,eagles and owls, are getting splattered on windows.

Title: Re: How did I not know?
Post by Serowbot on 10/23/22 at 11:54:26

About ten years ago, I had a Cooper's hawk chasing a pigeon hit my french door window.
Pigeon died,... hawk was stunned for several minutes.
Sounded like a thunder strike.

Title: Re: How did I not know?
Post by justin_o_guy2 on 10/23/22 at 12:26:49

Looked up Cooper's hawk. Thought, looks like a red tail to me. And I'm not any kind of expert on birds. So looked up Red tails, apparently they are bigger and Coopers have a black cap. Once in a while I get the pleasure of a hawk circling. But not close enough to see defining characteristics. Coupla times I got to see one dive and grab something only to hustle off to a distant limb to savor the flavor of the victim.
In the No Kiddin!!?? department, a guy I knew saw a red tail get hit by a pickup. It was flopping around in the ditch and he scooped it up and brought it to me. I bought some heavy leather gloves, opened a pound of burger meat,had a fat straw from a malt and I held it and he loaded the straw and blew meat in its mouth. After a week or so it was getting stronger so I got leg thigh quarters and let it walk around in the yard and I teased it till it snagged the chicken outta my hand. OhhHolyCrap! That thing was so quick, if it had gotten a piece of the glove idk how it would have gone. After it chowed down I saw meat poking out between feathers on its neck, so I called the vet I thought worked on birds. They said Yes, so I hauled her in there. I didn't get ten feet in the door before they were hollering at me to Get that thing outta there.
Works out, there's a ten Thousand dollar fine just for having one. I called them and they gave me a number for a licensed rehab bird specialist.
It had a busted wing, hole in its gullet and blind in one eye.
She chewed me out and asked why I didn't call her first.
Only answer I had was
The darned bird didn't have your number.

It was a heckuva interesting time in my life, trying to save that bird.

Aaand, back to the show.
Hope that wasn't too boring.

Title: Re: How did I not know?
Post by Serowbot on 10/23/22 at 12:50:28

Trivia...
You know that bird sound that follows every time a movie shows a big landscape panorama?
Same sound every movie.
That's a Red Tailed Hawk. Only bird that makes that sound.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLn1i0UxQGE[/media]

Title: Re: How did I not know?
Post by justin_o_guy2 on 10/23/22 at 13:28:02

Which I have tried to mimic. Yeah, it's NOT good.