Yep that's what I meant. I killed this snake in my yard or I killed this spider in my kitchen. It hurts my heart that people hate these creatures so much.

Cool! That's fascinating! I love this stuff! Thanks for sharing that with me!

And I never thought of you as trying to portray such a standard. We have to work within the confines of the written word only and it can lead to misunderstandings.

Another curious tactic used is to stick a couple of decals (about a metre in diameter each) that resemble open eyes towards the base of the wind towers. This apparently puts off eagles because they don't like to be stared at so they fly away from the towers. I have not seen any studies that completely confirm their effectiveness but I know the staring eyes were being used in Spain a few years ago along with the black blades. by one of the major power companies there.

Thanks for the info! Brilliant to know! I was genuinely asking. I know it's hugely conflated, and co-opted the harm to birds. I'm not saying zero harm, just that the amount of harm caused is conflated in disingenuous ways (mostly from unreliable sources). No energy production is perfect, literally all energy creation has energy loss or bi product, etc. I didn't mean to come across as trying to portray a standard of perfection. Apologies.

I usually get annoyed by people who get all soap-boxy about wind turbines and birds. These same people never seem to care about the birds (and all the other animals) who are killed by fossil fuel power generation.

https://climate.mit.edu/ask-mit/do-wind-turbines-kill-birds

Do wind turbines kill birds?
Yes - but only a fraction as many as are killed by house cats, buildings, or even the fossil fuel operations that wind farms replace.

That said, it appears they have a path forward for this particular wind farm:

What makes that almost feasible is a recent leap in tracking. Researchers have been fitting orange-bellied parrots with tiny radio transmitters and seeding their flyway with receiver stations, slowly learning the exact timing and route of a journey that was a near mystery a few years ago.

The more precisely engineers know when the parrots are crossing, the more surgically they can pause the machines, the way some birds have begun to tolerate turbines on other sites.

Hopefully they'll get the best of both worlds from this farm.

i think we are in agreement acutely, “posts like this” meaning the ones where people kill animals for no reason.

Well, we're seeing it here. Is that any reason not to hate it? Same post.

There are people out there who are so conditioned to hate snakes, spiders, etc that their first instinct is to kill them so changing the 'role' might help them to get some perspective. What is obvious to some is not obvious to all.

Just because we are supporters of renewable energy technologies, we shouldn't pretend that they are perfect. No technology is and that is why we're always improving and altering its usage as is happening with this project.

Wind turbines can and do kill flying animals, both birds and bats, though not in large numbers. That is why they have found overseas, for example, that painting one of the blades black helps animals to see the blades better and avoid getting killed.

This article has a longer video.

I haven't read this article, but it's been debunked that they cause bird deaths, I had thought.

the unnecessary killing of animals, then posting about it for clout? yes i would hate seeing that too if i was on face book

So the story is not over, and it is not a foregone funeral. A parrot the weight of a few coins has already done the impossible once, crossing an ocean and coming back from the brink. Whether it can also thread its way through a field of turning blades is the question now being written, one migration, and one paused turbine, at a time.

🤞 💚

Depends where you live 😆 . In any case, most snakes are shy and move away from people (for good reason) and will only bite if provoked accidentally or intentionally. We also have anti-venom in hospitals so deaths are pretty rare.

So why do you hate seeing posts like this? I'm coming up with some ideas but I reckon you're going to surprise me.

The rate might be low, but comparing blindly to domesticated animals isn't quite fair, since context and exposure levels drastically skew the results. Humans interact a lot with domesticated animals directly, and comparatively little with wild (and venomous) snakes.

Being a city girl I had no idea until I heard about the dangers of working with cattle when I came to a regional area. If you want to raise your eyebrows, this will give you som ideas: https://www.worksafe.qld.gov.au/safety-and-prevention/hazards/workplace-hazards/agriculture/cattle-handling

Haha! Whaaat!!! I's gona say RAdelaide, but then I thought, too risky.

I liked Adelaide when I went there. But I's pretty young so didn't really explore much unfortunately.

You took the risk... It did not pay off :D. I was in Adelaide for most of the time, though yes, I did visit Sydney for a couple weeks.

Ah, glad you liked the place! :) Always feels good when someone says that.

Where'd you visit/live? I'm gona go way out on a limb and say Sydney. Risky choice, I know.

I was just kidding. I lived a few years in Aus, it was awesome

I saw this on Lemmy but it reminded me of why I deleted my Facebook account.

Pull Ray Martin out of retirement and get it sorted

Wait! What!? Whats happening with Bovine deaths? Is this something we need to send 'A Current Affair' in to investigate?!

Our wildlife gets such a bad rap! 😆

Sure we have some bitey and stingy animals but the overall fatality rate is very, very low. Here are some figures (I couldn't find any that were more up-to-date) from a quick search. Look at the animal that causes the most deaths. It's one you no doubt have in your country too.

You might want to encourage your friends to get Mastodon accounts. Mastodon is federated like Lemmy, and there's a mastodon.au instance. There's a beginners guide here: https://www.thewindowsclub.com/how-to-use-mastodon-social-beginners-guide