Dear Dr. Duchamp

Thank you for your e-mail.
	I really concerned about the effects of wind turbines for sea eagles 
because many of their
breeding and wintering habitats in Hokkaido overlap in sites with 
wind farming.
With regret, we have never had systematic studies about striking of 
birds for wind turbines in Japan, but
we had three dead-bodies of white-tailed sea eagles which were found 
accidentally under wind turbines
in Hokkaido during last year. (I think they are only a camel's nose.) 
One bird was found on 5th Feb., 2004
at the roadside along wind turbines in Tomamae town, the other one 
was found on 15th Mar., 2004 at
Tomamae wind park (this is a different site from the former site), 
and the last one was found at
Konbumori in Nemuro city on 10th Dec., 2004.  Our authority is 
ministry of the environment, but they
have never taken measures at all, yet.
	My recent most concerning is about the project of a wind farm at the 
Soya peninsula where is
very important migration and stop-over site not only for White-tailed 
and Steller's Sea eagles but also
for the other various birds.  I have brought up this problem to 
ministry of the environment and also
appealed to public, but the reaction proceeds weakly. This wind farm 
is under construction now.


Sincerely,

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Saiko Shiraki (Post Doctoral Researcher)
Laboratory of Environmental Medicine and Informatics
Division of Bioscience, Graduate School of Environmental
Earth Science, Hokkaido University
Kita 10 Nishi 5, Sapporo 060-0810, JAPAN
Tel:+81-011-706-2251, fax: +81-011-706-4864
"Shiraki Saiko" <shiraki@ees.hokudai.ac.jp>  


> Dear Dr. Shiraki,
> I have read a newspaper article about white-tailed sea eagles being 
> killed by windfarms on Hokkaido.
Your name was mentioned.
> I am gathering information from around the world on birds killed by 
> wind turbines. You will find an
example of my work here: www.iberica2000.org/Es/Articulo.asp?Id=1875
> 14 white tailed sea eagles were found in Germany, killed by wind 
> turbines. Windfarms are being installed
on their territories in Scotland, Norway, Finland, Germany. This will 
have serious consequences on the
survival of the species.
> Is it possible for you to tell me how many white-tailed sea eagles 
> were killed on Hokkaido? The name of
the windfarm, and the date?
> Were the deaths registered with the authorities? (name of 
> registration office).
> And finally: is the Steller's sea eagle at risk too?
> I thank you in advance for your kind cooperation. Regards
> Mark DuchampWindfarm/Bird Research ManagerProact International 
> http://www.proact-campaigns.net 
> http://www.iberica2000.org/Es/Articulo.asp?Id=1228http://www.iberica2000.org/documents/dirlist2-main.asp?f=/EOLICA (documents)http://www.iberica2000.org/documents/EOLICA/PHOTOS/BIRDS_KILLED_BY_WINDFARMS/ 
> (photos)