Can You Hear The Disappearing Birdsong?

It has long been known that birds that fly
within thirty yards either side of a motorway
are deafened bythe noise of the traffic,
and have to concentrate their numbers
farther away to hear each others' songs.

Now the birds have a new land based enemy,
the 509 UK data centres of Amazon and Microsoft
that keep the.information super highways moving
which produce extremes of heat, light, and noise,
that deafen birds up to a fiftth a mile around them.

So whether it is the old roads or the new digital highways
we do more to cut down nature as we travel than we realise.