Link to an interesting rebuttal printed in Wildlife Professional (Spring 2012).
http://www.westernbirdbanding.org/Call%20for%20Retraction.pdf
Cheers,
Chris Watson
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Here is a link to a paper recently published where modeling has been employed to estimate annual bird kills at each of the communication towers in the USA and Canada.
Scientific paper: An Estimate of Avian Mortality at Communication Towers in the United States and Canada
http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0034025
Dean Cutten Victor Harbor, SA Australia
It is a pity that the author of the article cited, Marlene Condon, was not more concerned about the tens, if not hundreds of millions of birds that are killed every year in the USA by birds hitting buildings and other man-made structures (US Fish and Wildlife Service figures)
But then, one should never let facts get in the way of a good story.
Cheers,
Carl Clifford
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