Wind farms condemned as eagles fall prey to turbines

WIND turbines have caused the deaths of four white-tailed eagles on isolated islands off the Norwegian coast.

Thirty other eagles have failed to return to their nesting sites within the wind farm area on Smola, 9.6km (six miles) northwest of Norway, according to wildlife campaigners.

The dead birds were found between August and December last year. Two had been sliced in half, apparently by a turbine blade. Post-mortem examinations, however, attributed the birds
Times Online