Uproar After Turbine Slaughters Innocent Birdie (WARNING: GRAPHIC, TONGUE-IN-CHEEK CONTENT) [View all]

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"This week an extraordinary animal paid a visit to our shores. The elegant and lightning-fast white-throated needletail breeds mostly in China and migrates to Australia, so it was unusual sight dancing around the Isle of Harris in Scotland. The spectacle attracted birders from across the country and created a flurry of activity online as the lucky few shared their extraordinary images.

Sadly, the poor bird met an untimely end. A long way from home, presumably disoriented and exhausted from its journey that had brought it to the other side of the world from its kin, it flew into a small community wind turbine and died immediately.

Predictably, some people, who have shown little interest in bird conservation before, have sought to martyr this poor bird for their anti-windfarm cause. This is as offensive as it is irrational."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2013/jun/28/white-throated-needletail-wind-turbines

I'm not the biggest fan of wind power, but this op-ed struck a note. Note to wind advocates: give up. You can note how wind energy is clean, it saves some burning of coal and human lives every day, but if it kills a cute animal you're just screwed.