Vulture hit by wind turbine blade video--long clip


WARNING--THIS IS REALLY GRAPHIC. This is an extended version of the one I posted below. It is quite long as it follows the vulture as circles the wind turbines for awhile including several apparent close calls before getting too close to one and getting hit. The date on this is 2009 and location is Crete. It also has some rather distracting music and ads at the bottom. The worst is the extended video of the bird flopping around and trying unsuccessfully to fly plus close-ups of the injured bird. At the end it says that some paragliding pilots go to rescue the bird which they do successfully. This video was posted on American Bird Conservancy Facebook page so I emailed them asking if they found out if the bird survived. They did respond but said they didn't have any information on what happened with the vulture after what is shown in this video. As I noted in earlier post, this is illustrative of the need for proper siting of wind farms. I support RESPONSIBLE renewable energy which includes proper siting, environmental studies before and ongoing for monitoring and use of newer wind turbines. SeEtta

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