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Re:Activists who embrace nuclear power by jessaustin on Sunday February 21, 2021 @03:01PM (#26216589)
Bald eagles, if that's what you mean, are a "least concern" species. That makes sense, because while in my neighborhood we never saw them several decades ago, now I see them multiple times a month. The other day I saw a family of four perched in a dead tree. Somehow they've overcome the dual menace of housecats and wind generation. Now that we've scaled back on DDT, the bald eagle is fine.
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Re:Activists who embrace nuclear power by mannerheim on Sunday February 21, 2021 @03:12PM (#26216691)
Bald eagles and golden eagles are still protected species - unless, of course, you're running a wind farm, in which case you're exempt from these sorts of regulations.[0]

0: https://apnews.com/article/b8dd6050c702467e8be4b1272a3adc87

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Re:Activists who embrace nuclear power by jessaustin on Sunday February 21, 2021 @03:33PM (#26216883)
At that link, we learn that the industry is prohibited from killing 4200 a year, which number would have a negligible effect on the population and of which number the industry has only ever killed a tiny fraction. Far more eagles die from automobile impact than from wind generation. Eagles are flying coyotes. So long as we aren't actively poisoning them, we can coexist just fine.
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Re:Activists who embrace nuclear power by mannerheim on Sunday February 21, 2021 @03:41PM (#26216958)
There are fewer than 10,000 breeding pairs of golden eagle in the U.S. But perhaps killing 20% of the population annually would have a negligible effect.
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Re:Activists who embrace nuclear power by jessaustin on Monday February 22, 2021 @12:28PM (#26227276)
This is silly. Your own link, above, has wind generation deaths for both golden and the vastly more common bald eagles as a small portion of the 500/yr figure that also includes more common causes such as automobile strikes. You're not really worried about this fanciful issue.

You would have more fun if you trolled using one of your established HN accounts instead of a greenbean.

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Re:Activists who embrace nuclear power by mannerheim on Monday February 22, 2021 @07:15PM (#26232389)
Oh yes, this is very silly, as opposed to bringing up the number of birds killed by housecats. Housecats kill so many more birds than automobile strikes too, after all. I'm sure we can't worry about those deaths until we euthanise all cats, this isn't fanciful at all.

This is my first and only HN account, but I thank you for the warm welcome.

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