Subject:  (Lundquist) Birds & Microwaves (fwd)
Date:     Fri, 12 Feb 1999 134254 -0600 (CST)
From:     "Roy L. Beavers" <rbeavers@llion.org>
To:       emfguru <rbeavers@llion.org>
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Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 19:17:44
From: marjlundquist@usa.net
To: rbeavers@llion.org
Subject: Birds & Microwaves

Questions have been raised lately about the effects upon birds of the
microwave radiation broadcast by wireless telecommunications
transmitters.  An experimental investigation of the effect of pulsed
microwave radiation upon birds was carried out over 30 years ago; the
results were reported in Nature, vol. 210 (May 7, 1966) page 636.  The
author, J. A. Tanner, was with the National Research Council, Ottawa,
Canada.  Experiments were done on 14-week-old chickens, on pigeons,
and on seagulls.  There were differences between the three kinds of
birds, but muscle function was affected in all (to some degree in the
wings, to some degree in the legs).
In a different report, it was documented that a particular type of
microwave exposure caused muscle weakness in a patient undergoing
medical treatment.  For this reason I have suspected that the reason
why homing pigeons recently failed to return home was, quite simply,
that they could not stay aloft.  Flying is a strenuous activity, and
even a slight loss of muscle strength is a serious matter to a bird.
The article in Nature focussed on pulsed MW radiation.  I suspect that
a digital transmitter was in operation in the area where the homing
pigeons were released.  It could have been a TV station transmitting
digital TV signals; the start date for such transmissions in the USA
was in November, 1998, though only a very few stations actually did
begin digital TV transmissions at that time.  A TV signal would be
much stronger than any signal from a wireless telecommunications
transmitter, and would be far more likely to affect birds over a large
geographic area.
I have a feeling that, if digital TV transmissions are allowed to
become as widespread as the FCC intends, birds of all kinds will quite
literally disappear from the skies over urban areas in the USA!  I
guess it's time somebody wrote "Silent Spring II"! -- Marjorie
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Marjorie Lundquist, Ph.D., C.I.H.
Bioelectromagnetic Hygienist
P. O. Box 11831
Milwaukee, WI  53211-0831  USA
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