A PUZZLING aspect of the ongoing Navitus Bay wind farm debate is the apparent lack of input from ornithological circles.

Tall windmills represent a hazard for most birds.

A vast complex of these towering mobiles sprawling over the ocean would cause complete havoc among flights of night-flying migrants.

Does the absence of comment from RSPB and like organisations imply lack of interest, silent approval or mute admission of impotency in the face of powerful vested interests?

Perhaps in future those perennial surveys that monitor the progressive decline of our bird species will be supplemented with a regular tally of the avian corpses washed up on our shores.

FA FORD, Elphinstone Road, Christchurch