FW: [BIRDCHAT] Effects of Wind Turbines

["Peter Shute" <>]

 wrote on Thursday, 17 May 2007 2:39
PM:

> Luckily for the bats they operate at quite different frequencies:
>
> Radar 3MHz-110GHz
>
> Bats Hearing 14KHz (humans stop at about 20KHz) through to 100KHz
>
> Do any birds use Echolocation or have ridiculously high frequency
> hearing?

Even if they do, surely it has nothing to do with their ability to
detect radar.  I would have thought that any effect on them might be
just making them uncomfortable by cooking them a bit with microwaves.

Peter Shute
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