wind turbine kills bird in front of crowd of twitchers

[Jim Johnson]

There had been only eight recorded sightings of the white-throated needletail in the UK since 1846. So when one popped up again on British shores this week, twitchers were understandably excited.

A group of 40 enthusiasts dashed to the Hebrides to catch a glimpse of the brown, black and blue bird, which breeds in Asia and winters in Australasia.

But instead of being treated to a wildlife spectacle they were left with a horror show when it flew into a wind turbine and was killed.


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2350267/Rare-bird-white-throated-needletail-killed-wind-turbine-crowd-twitchers.html

[Free libertarian]

See? Just another reason to go solar! Other than that Icarus bird poser dude nobody ever flew into the sun and was killed. 

[Jim Johnson]

Not yet.

[Russell Kanning]

Wow
Those things do go fast.
A pigeon killed himself on my truck near Denver last week.

[Jim Johnson]

Wow
Those things do go fast.
A pigeon killed himself on my truck near Denver last week.

That was probably a war veteran with PTSD too.

[Russell Kanning]

That would explain why the other one pulled up but this one went Kamikaze.