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Technicians working 475 kilometers of Spanish transmission line strung between 1,196 pylons took 839 white stork nests off the tops of them between 2016 and 2019, and 134 pylons accounted for nearly all of it, with one tower alone accounting for nine of the removals

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Between 2016 and 2019, crews maintaining a stretch of Spain’s high-voltage transmission network pulled 839 white stork nests off the tops of steel pylons, according to a peer-reviewed study of the work. The nests came off 1,196 pylons carrying 475 kilometers of transmission lines through the southwestern provinces of Huelva and Seville, and the removals were anything but evenly spread: just 134 pylons, roughly 11 percent of the total — measured across the full 2015–2019 study window — acco

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