Eagles, Parkinson’s, Cthulhu

at least 150 eagles were killed at its wind farms in eight states, federal prosecutors said Wednesday.

NextEra Energy subsidiary ESI Energy was also sentenced to five years probation after being charged with three counts of violating the Migratory Bird Treaty Act during a court appearance in Cheyenne, Wyoming. The charges arose from the deaths of nine eagles at three wind farms in Wyoming and New Mexico.

In addition to those deaths, the company acknowledged the deaths of golden and bald eagles at 50 wind farms affiliated with ESI and NextEra since 2012, prosecutors said. Birds were killed in eight states: Wyoming, California, New Mexico, North Dakota, Colorado, Michigan, Arizona and Illinois.

Eagle Killings

An ugly business. There a lot of bald eagles here and a lot of windmills. The new thing is they want to add two dozen 600 foot ones a few miles from me. What will that do to birds?

Meanwhile this guy is still around here. It and other wayward birds are discussed here.

 “During hibernation, there is a massive accumulation of tau in the brain and central nervous system,” says Elena Gracheva, a neurophysiologist at Yale University.

The big difference: While tau proteins continue to accumulate in Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s patients as the disease inevitably worsens, hibernators quickly clear the tangles in an impressive feat of spring cleaning. Their brains show no signs of damage, and their memories and motor skills are completely intact. “Hibernators do just fine,”

What animal hibernation can teach us about Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s

Bears are more amazing than they already are.

I like how he is still going for a peanut as he whines. A real barfly.