Posts Tagged Birds

AP IMPACT: Wind farms get pass on eagle deaths

In this April 18, 2013, photo, a golden eagle is seen flying over a  wind turbine on Duke energy's top of the world windfarm in Converse County Wyo. The company has reported 10 golden eagle deaths since it started operation in 2009. It's the not-so-green secret of the nation's wind-energy boom: Spinning turbines are killing thousands of federally protected birds, including eagles, each year. (AP Photo/Dina Cappiello)

CONVERSE COUNTY, Wyo. (AP) — Wind farms in this corner of Wyoming have killed more than four dozen golden eagles since 2009, one of the deadliest places in the country of its kind.

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Peacock attacks 2-year-old girl at Albuquerque zoo

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The Albuquerque zoo says it doesn’t plan to cage its peacocks but does plan to put up more warning signs in the wake of an attack on a 2-year-old girl.

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Fighting eagles crash land on Minn. airport runway

In this  Sunday, May 12, 2013, photo provided by the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources  are two bald eagles after they crash landed on a runway at Duluth, Minn., International Airport. Minnesota DNR officer Randy Hanzal said the eagles, locked together by their talons in a midair territorial dispute, couldn't separate but survived the fall. (AP Photo/Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, Randy Hanzal)

DULUTH, Minn. (AP) — Two bald eagles locked together by their talons in a midair battle survived a crash landing onto a runway at a northeastern Minnesota airport.

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