TV TOWER KILLS BIRDS “Birds were falling at the rate of four to six a minute within hearing range. You were lucky if you weren’t clunked on the head by a falling bird. I had several near misses.” So graphically wrote Vincent Heig, a Minnesota University student of the night of 18-19 September, 1963, at the 100ft. TV tower at Eau Claire, Wisconsin. Later it was estimated that the tower had killed 15,000 migrant birds that night. Three days later a local newspaper headlined that 30,000 birds had been killed there in 48 hours. No fewer than 10,000 corpses of 57 different species were actually picked up. —from World Wildlife News.
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Forest and Bird, Issue 153, 1 August 1964, Page 27
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