On Sat, 29 Mar 2014 14:37:49 -0700, Two Shoes (Judson Knowles) wrote:

Why is everyone so lazy that they need to be spoon fed this? Is your
Google-Fu that weak?

Speaking entirely for myself, my search skills are fine: took me about
two searches to find the stuff on birds killed by oil spills.

I considered looking for the US turbine stuff myself but decided not to:
since those quoting very large bird kill numbers sounded so sure they
knew the facts I thought it would be better to ask them what they based
their assertions on, which is what I did. Besides, UK figures are more
interesting to me.

T'was interesting to see just how little peer-reviewed literature there
is on the subject *and* that the best the Smithsonian could do was to
quote somebody else: I thought they were the sort of outfit that would do
their own research.

It was also interesting to compare annual kill rate estimates for the
entire US installed turbine collection with the estimates for the overall
Exxon Valdez spill's figure, so thanks for the links you've provided.
I'll be interested to see what data some others have.

Doing a similar search for the UK is on my todo list.

I'm not posting for one side or the other, just to show if one wants
data, it is out there. I guess whomever reads any of this will need to
determine if they are "reliable" sources or not.

Indeed, but at least we know who made the estimates and what methods they
used.


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