Darn City People Breeding More Hawks

[centrarchid]

See link below. Link to original not up where I can get it.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/11/181106192739.htm

Title just to catch your eye, not really and effort to incriminate city people.

 

[roosterhavoc]

See link below. Link to original not up where I can get it.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/11/181106192739.htm

Title just to catch your eye, not really and effort to incriminate city people.

I didn’t read the article but it only took a few days of filling a bird feeder here before I realized the hawks were just using it as a buffet. I took it down and that was that. Now the little birds just get in my pens. Can’t win.

 

[townchicks]

Adaptation is interesting. I recently read an article about ospreys now living and breeding in the San Francisco bay surrounds, where historically, they had never been recorded.

 

[HenOnAJuneBug]

The unintended consequences of good intentions. Not unlike giant wind turbines responsible for deaths of 75% of nearby buzzards, kites and hawks according to an Indian Institute of Science study.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/science...tors-kill-three-QUARTERS-predatory-birds.html

 

[centrarchid]

I think the birds can adapt given a little time. I would allow experiment to go 20 years or so to see if bird number around turbines comes up.


When if comes to bird feeders, I would look into making so the songbirds have more cover. It will not completely stop losses but would promote a more pleasant new normal.

 

[townchicks]

I got rid of my bird feeders because they drew rats. Never saw any hawks around them when I had them, but I've had a few try to get at my doves.

 

[HenOnAJuneBug]

I think the birds can adapt given a little time. I would allow experiment to go 20 years or so to see if bird number around turbines comes up.

Can't imagine how they can adapt. Avoiding a turbine blade bearing down on them at 100-175 mph from above while they are scanning the ground for prey is really impossible. If the trend continues at the same rate for another 20 years that would be a 94% reduction. That's nearly extinction, at least locally.

 

[centrarchid]

They can learn avoid the vicinity of turbines or hunt from ground.

 

[igorsMistress]

Because hunting on the ground is how they do it. Adapt or die because humans are the most important species.

 

[chickengeorgeto]

Can't imagine how they can adapt. Avoiding a turbine blade bearing down on them at 100-175 mph from above while they are scanning the ground for prey is really impossible. If the trend continues at the same rate for another 20 years that would be a 94% reduction. That's nearly extinction, at least locally.

The Solar power plants that use mirrors to concentrate the Sun's rays and produce steam are even more deadly for birds. When birds fly through the beams of light they literally catch fire and burn to death while still alive. It is so common that there is now a descriptive term for this, these birds are called COMMETS.