A utility places a new transmission line between a large lake on a duck migratory path and fields of grain that they eat. You can guess what happens next -- from the Calgary Sun:
Dozens of dismembered ducks believed to have been killed by transmission lines near Pincher Creek
Eagles and ravens don't eat wings, apparently - and that's made counting the carnage in Alberta's latest duck disaster all too easy.
Dozens of dismembered mallard wings are all that greeted retired forest scientist David McIntyre as he investigated reports of a mass bird kill just north of Pincher Creek.
There, beside a newly-built power transmission line, McIntyre found an ongoing banquet for local avian scavengers, including seven eagles, a dozen ravens and a hawk - all of them gorging on dead ducks, scattered beneath the wires.
They eat the duck, and leave the wings behind.
"It appears obvious that the line's placement, directly between a key waterfowl staging area and adjacent grain fields, couldn't have been planned more effectively if killing waterfowl had been its primary objective," said McIntyre, a well-known environmentalist in the area.
"the biggest thing to me in all of this, is how in the world was such an obvious threat allowed to take place?"
Like they said, this is something that could have been prevented had due diligence been done. I hope the utility is forced to relocate the lines...
