Angry Birds? No, But Obama's Wind Energy Subsidies Have Them Very Frightened. Forbes

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By Brian Seasholes, ...Wind turbines have a significant impact on this nation’s birds, especially birds of prey and other large species.  The American Bird Conservancy even thinks it’s possible the golden eagle will end up on the endangered species list because so many are being killed by wind turbines. In fact, the Obama administration is so fixated on wind power that it recently gave a California-based wind company an exemption from prosecution if a turbine kills a California condor, one of the rarest birds in the world, with only around 400 alive today.  And the administration is hoping to grant a similar exemption to all wind farms along the 1,500-mile Texas to North Dakota migratory corridor for the whooping crane, another of the world’s rarest birds.                                                                                                                                                               Wind turbines kill around 600,000 birds annually according to a recently published scholarly article in the Wildlife Society Bulletin...Read complete article here...