Pictures proving that raptors are attracted to windfarms
http://savetheeagles.wordpress.com/2013/05/28/raptors-attracted-to-windfarms-2/
Study showing that bats are attracted by wind turbines
as far as 14 km away (offshore on top of that!).
And new, short paper mentioning all this and suggesting that swifts and swallows could also be attracted to windfarms.
http://wcfn.org/2013/07/01/tip-of-the-iceberg/
This would turn wind turbines into ecological traps. Forget about “siting wind turbines carefully”. It’s useless: certain birds and bats are attracted by them from far away, and killed.
This is a whole new ball game.
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