Wind farms endanger wild life.....

Some See Wind-Farm Peril to Birds

By Tania Soussan

Journal Staff Writer

    HOUSE- Nobody expected the golden eagles to be there.
    But after the New Mexico Wind Energy Center was built on the state's eastern plains near House in 2001, an active nest was discovered, outside what had been believed to be the range of golden eagles in the state.
    And then one day last year, windsmiths at the third-largest wind farm in the world watched helplessly as jet black ravens harassed one of the adult eagles, chasing it into a turbine.
    Later, one of the young eagles from the nest was found dead beneath a turbine.
    The deaths of the two golden eagles a species protected by a pair of federal laws highlight the worries of biologists and wildlife advocates that New Mexico's rapidly growing wind industry could pose a threat to birds and bats.