How To Keep Birds From Hitting Your Windows
Every year millions of birds collide with windows. Here’s how you can help. Brett Tryon Updated
April 7, 2021
Caption: A male common yellowthroat, the bird whose death from a collision with a window inspired Michael Mesure to co-found an organization fighting bird deaths from window strikes.
It was 1990 and Michael Mesure was en route to a wildlife rehabilitation centre. One of his many passengers was a common yellowthroat, a tiny black and yellow warbler that had crashed into a window. As Mesure was driving, the bird escaped from its paper bag and perched on the rearview mirror. What happened next was even more astonishing: the bird began to sing. Mesure was enchanted. The yellowthroat continued to serenade him until the very moment it collapsed into his lap, dead.
Energy company to breed California condors
It aims to replace endangered birds killed by turbines By Louis Sahagún, Los Angeles Times
Published: March 8, 2021, 6:05am
Share:
3 Photos Dusk settles over power-generating wind turbines near the Tehachapi Mountains in Rosamond. Federal wildlife officials are allowing Manzana, a private wind energy company, to provide funding to breed critically endangered California condors to replace any killed by its turbines. (Gina Ferazzi/Los Angeles Times) Photo Gallery
ROSAMOND, Calif. They are among the top goals of California environmentalists: preserving endangered species and replacing fossil fuels with clean energy.
Yet in the blustery skies above Kern County’s Tehachapi Mountains where towering wind turbines churn with hypnotic rhythm renewable energy and wildlife preservation appear to be headed for a disastrous collision.
Wisdom, el ave salvaje más longeva del mundo, da a luz a una cría a los 70 años lavanguardia.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from lavanguardia.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Wisdom, the Worldâs Oldest Known Wild Bird, Has Another Chick
An albatross named Wisdom has astounded researchers by hatching a chick at more than 70 years old, securing her title as the worldâs oldest known breeding bird.
The Laysan albatross named Wisdom, who was first identified and banded on Midway Atoll in 1956, has hatched a chick at the age of at least 70.Credit.John Klavitter/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
March 5, 2021
At more than 70 years young, Wisdom, the worldâs oldest known banded wild bird, is taking on the challenge of motherhood once again.
An egg laid by Wisdom, a Laysan albatross, late last year on a speck of land in the Pacific Ocean hatched at the beginning of last month, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service announced.
Energy company to breed endangered California condors to replace birds killed by turbine blades gazettextra.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from gazettextra.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.