Date: 3/12/25 9:31 am From: david nicosia <daven1024...> Subject: Re: Study re: solar farms and birds [was RE: [cayugabirds-l] Fwd: FYI]
What about when they chop down 100 acres of woods for a solar array? That is happening down here. I don't think this is very bird friendly. Grazed fields sounds fine for birds but woodlands or even brushy areas? not good.
On Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 11:00:30 AM EDT, madonna stallmann <madonnaoftheprairie...> wrote:
Interesting study! I wonder what the difference is for rangeland/grazing as compared to solar array (I can not bring myself to calling any industrial site, such as a solar array, a "farm")? Anyone know of any studies being done on that?
🐦 Madonna Stallmann
On Tue, Mar 11, 2025, 9:31 PM Eveline V. Ferretti <ef15...> wrote:
Hello all, thread below reminded me that I’d wanted to share this news piece:Solar farms can host up to three times as many birds as crop fields – new research (via theconversation.com; includes a link tothe paper by Joshua Copping et al (University of Cambridge) that presented the study.
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Subject: Re: [cayugabirds-l] Fwd: FYI
This may be wandering off topic a bit but since I found it alarming, and then found it somewhat less so when I looked into it further, wanted to share what I discovered.
This particular website was created in 2006 by a staunch denier of man-made climate change and it continues to support that case. Click on the drop down menus for "Climate TV", "Books", and "Everything Climate" to confirm that this remains its central purpose.
There are no examples of eagles actually being killed in this article, not even an anecdote. The only articles it links to also also do not have any data, do not mention even a single eagle casualty, and are published by a second organization that specifically rejects climate change (CFact).
It would be more persuasive to hear about the effects of wind power on eagles from a less biased source, particularly if there were data in support of any claims made.
Best wishes -
Alicia
On 3/11/2025 5:09 PM, Carl Steckler wrote:
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