Tilting at windmills: Trump laments death of bald eagle in the US … which was really a falcon in Israel | Donald Trump
Donald Trump has refused to pause in his relentless war on wind energy, even while on vacation at his Florida resort.
Late Tuesday, the US president said: picture of a dead bird “Windmills are killing all our beautiful bald eagles!” posted on social media under the turbine.
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Unfortunately, Trump’s attempt to incite outrage among American patriots with what he claims is a photo of the national bird hanging low, when closer examination reveals that the photo does not show a bald eagle and was not taken in the United States. The picture actually shows a hawk that was killed at a wind farm in Israel eight years ago.
In his rush to post the photo on his social media platform, Trump overlooked a couple of visual cues that might have given him pause. The first is that the bird is missing the distinctive markings of a bald eagle. Secondly, the turbine blamed for his death appears to have Hebrew writing on it.
A quick search of Israeli wind farms blamed for bird deaths reveals that the photo in question was indeed taken by Hedy Ben Eliahou. an employee Listed in the Israel Nature and Parks Authority 2017 report Tel Aviv’s news source is Haaretz.
Had Trump or someone at one of the 18 U.S. intelligence agencies that report to him traced the image to its source, he likely would have been pleased to read that Israel’s parks and nature ministry shared his concern that wind energy was costing birds deaths. According to Haaretz, “Wind turbines cause serious harm to bird and bat life in Israel beyond the level acceptable to nature authorities.”
Israeli wind turbines killed about two dozen birds a year, the newspaper added, and concerns about the death toll at the time led zoos with eagle breeding programs to campaign against a plan to build a wind turbine farm in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights “for fear of harming the already seriously endangered vulture population there.”
