[BC] TV tower kills birds

[Bernie Courtney]

there was just something on the new here in NY about a week or 2 ago about
the 'bird folk' asking the mangers of all the high rises in the city to
either dim or shut off the building lights after either 10pm or midnight
since the light apparently attracts the birds and crash into the buildings
and die.

On 10/6/05, cldube <cld at admin.umass.edu> wrote:
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> I have, however, seen scores of them over time on the grounds adjacent to
> glass high rise office buildings.
> Perhaps this needs to be addressed as well?
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> I don't mean to be flippant. It seems that broadcast towers get singled
> out
> in this issue.
> Well, broadcast towers and wind mills.
>
> Chuck Dube
> WFCR
> Amherst, MA.
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> From: "charles hobbs" <cph1776 at yahoo.com>
> To: <broadcast at radiolists.net>
> Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2005 12:29 PM
> Subject: [BC] TV tower kills birds
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> > http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051006/ap_on_re_us/bird_kill
> >
> > MADISON, Wis. - As many as 400 songbirds were killed
> > in one night after they flew into wires holding up a
> > television tower.
> >
> > The deaths may spur the creation of a group to study
> > the dangers communication towers pose to migrating
> > birds, said specialists with the Department of Natural
> > Resources.
> >
> > "It's an issue that has been with us for decades," DNR
> > avian ecologist Sumner Matteson said. "But we really
> > haven't done anything about it."
> >
> > The birds were killed the night of Sept. 13-14 at the
> > WMTV tower.
> >
> > "There were birds all over the place," said Steven
> > Ugoretz, a DNR environmental specialist who works on
> > tower-related issues.
> > [...]
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