I would like to keep you posted on a news that came on TOI on 22 May 2015.

"It is dangerous for birds and even forest department, in its letter dated May 5, 2015 and May 12, 2015, has accepted that mobile-tower radiation is effecting health of birds and peacock in particular," said Khetawat. Girish Kumar from electrical engineering department of IIT-Mumbai, who had done extensive work on harmful effects of mobile towers radiation on human, birds and animals, said birds, including sparrows, honey bees and peacocks are severely affected by cell-tower radiation as their surface area is more (so radiation absorbed is more) as compared to their body weight.

"When cell-tower radiation impinges on the human body or birds, molecules in the blood, fluid, water vibrate at a speed of 900 millions per second for GSM900 and 1,800 millions per second for GSM1800. These vibrations cause DNA damage and also produce heat, which is the principle of microwave heating," said Kumar.
He added that effects on peacocks is much more pronounced as its wings/feather occupy more surface area resulting in large absorption of radiation, and hence, creating more health hazards leading to various ailments and even death.

Valid question -

Mobile radiation

There is no immediate effect when exposed to mobile radiation so far what we have, but its a slow killer and reports have suggested to see mobile radiation as a pollutant. Let alone birds and animals, it's detrimental to humans as well.

Mobile radiation is not the only cause for declain in birds population, may not even be a major chunk when compared to other sources of harm.

Agriculture to be blammed for major disturbance in ecology

Any reasons boils down to modern agricultural practices that shares major cause for the decline

Excessive use of chemicals in farming has complex effect on all living beings

Clearing habitats (all most all kinds ex: forest, wet lands, dry lands, grass lands etc.,) for agricultural purpose to feed 7 billion humans.

Over exploitation of available resources

Urban pollution of all kinds, cancerous development activities displacing wild life.

Another culprit is industrial revolution and world wars which introduced many technologies that perform against nature and natural arrangements, balances.

All the above reasons are creating scarcity of food , nesting sites, scarcity of living space, fresh air, unpolluted water, inducing disorders, decreases etc.,

Mobile tower has two type of antennas, one is used for communicating with mobiles which is of bar shaped and other is for communication between two towers which is of round shape.

The one which is used to communicate with mobile dosent harm its just myth.

But the one which is used for tower to tower communications is a high frequency microwave antenna. Microwave means not that powerful as our kitchen microwave but >10~20ghz

These microwaves operate at line of sight which these antennas radiation happens above 30mtrz and goes beyond 100mtrs from ground level and these radiation happens with a width of some mtrs called frenel zone above 30mtr

These radiation is harmful but not that harmful that it kills bees and birds

For not all birds but It may cause irritation to some bird spicies because of the high frequency

Eleanor R. Adair conducted microwave health research by exposing herself, animals and humans to microwave levels that made them feel warm or even start to sweat and feel quite uncomfortable. She found no adverse health effects other than heat.

As a telecom engineer I have seen birds laying nests on telecom towers like crows, pigeons, eagles

If it is that harmful they would never lay nests on towers.

Hope this makes a sense to believe that radiation not harmful

If we care about birds and other spicies. The only thing we should concern about is we should maintain greenery balance. Plant more trees. Build lakes.

Find more about microwaves at https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microwave

No.
It has never been demonstrated that there is any harmful effect from low power RF.

Another way to look at it is:
MRI machines are considered safe for an unlimited amount of use/exposure. In an MRI machine you are exposed to magnetic fields of up to 7 teslas, and literally hundreds of watts of RF. If you scale this to what a cell phone tower exposes you to if you were on top of the tower in direct contact with the antenna cover, you would need about 317 to amount to one minute in an MRI machine. (This number is calculated by using a number of very rough estimates and assumptions about the type of antenna involved and the number of transmitters connected to it, but I am sure you get the point.) Another point is that with your head against the plastic cover of a cellular antenna at a cell tower, the energy density is LOWER than the exposure you receive from using a cell phone, as with a cell phone you are much closer to the radiator (antenna), and the antenna is much smaller, so the power is concentrated in a much tighter area.

Yet another way to look at it is:
All of the energy is accounted for. We (scientists in the field) know EXACTLY how RF works. If the frequency is too low to cause ionization, and the power too low to cause enough ohmic heating, and the voltage is too low to exceed the action potential, there is no electrolysis. This accounts for 100% of the emissions. This literally means that there is zero power unaccounted for that can do anything. Another way of saying the same thing is *IF* there was some unknown way that the radiation from a cell phone could do something to you, there is no power that could be contributed to doing so, because everything else is accounted for.

Mobile phone emits microwaves and these are low waves forms. Non-ionising does not do damage to human cell as ionising radiation does. However, constant and long term exposure can be harmful.

1. World Health Organization (WHO) Report in May 2011, International Agency for Research and Cancer has classified radiofrequency electromagnetic fields as possibly carcinogenic to humans (Group 2B), based on an increased risk of glioma, a malignant type of brain cancer associated with wireless phone use. if there is any possibility of harm, then we must use the technology responsibly and safely. https://www.iarc.fr/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/pr208_E.pdf
2. Every mobile phone comes with a manual inside the box with precautionary guidelines and as customers we don’t care to read and follow safety guidelines. If phone are safe, why they come with safety Guidelines? Apple - Support - Manuals
3. Major developed countries like France, Taiwan, Israel & Italy have passed national laws banning wifi & use of wireless devices in nursery schools taking action for protection from Radiations emitted from Wi-Fi-routers: https://goo.gl/MyW4ym
4. Berkeley City in California, USA has passed a ‘Cell Phone Radiation Right to Know Ordinance’ that requires Retailers to put labels on packaging warning consumers that wireless devices could emit cancer causing levels of radiation: https://goo.gl/IOmpYa
5. Bioinitiative Report 2012: A new report by the BioInitiative Working Group 2012 says that evidence for risks to health has substantially increased since 2007 from electromagnetic fields (EMF) and wireless technologies (radio frequency – RF- radiation). The report reviews over 1,800 new scientific studies. Cell phone users, parents-to-be, young children and pregnant women are at particular risk. This fifth BioInitiative 2012 Report was prepared by 29 independent scientists from 10 countries, holding medical degrees, PhDs, and MsC, MA or MPHs. The authors concluded: “There is now much more evidence of risk to health affecting billions of people worldwide. According to the report, everyone is exposed to two types of EMFs: (1) extremely low frequency electromagnetic fields (ELF) from, for example, electrical and electronic appliances and power lines and (2) radio frequency radiation (RF) from wireless devices such as cell phones and cordless phones, cellular antennas and towers, and broadcast transmission towers. Other sources of exposure include, electrical wiring, wireless handheld devices, cell towers, “smart meters”, Wi-Fi, wireless laptops, wireless routers, baby monitors and other electronic devices. Health topics include damage to DNA and genes, effects on memory, learning, behaviour, attention, sleep disruption, cancer and neurological diseases like Alzheimer’s disease. There appear to be risks for each of this from continued exposure. https://bioinitiative.org/
6. United Nations: On May 11, 2015, 190 scientists from 39 countries submitted an “International EMF Scientist Appeal” to His Excellency Ban Ki-moon, Secretary General of the United Nations. These scientists have collectively published over 2,000 peer-reviewed papers on the biological and health effects of radiations. “We are scientists and engineers, and I am here to tell you – we have created something that is harming us, and it is getting out of control! Putting it bluntly, they are damaging the living cells in our bodies and killing many of us prematurely” says Dr. Martin Blank, heading the committee of Scientists and from the Department of Physiology and Cellular Biophysics at Columbia University, USA.

The cell phone tower emits and receives in the same frequency band as your phone. Why? Because it is communicating with your phone.

Since you likely put your phone up to your ear or leave it in your pocket near your heart or private parts, my first concern would be whether my brain, heart, or reproductive organs were at risk.

Evidently not. After 25 years of consumer cellphone use, no significant organ disease has been associated with the phones.

One thing that could happen is that if bird eggs were placed right in the antenna pattern and close enough (no more than a few inches) the fertilized eggs could absorb enough radiowaves to get warmer than the environment, and this could trigger some unusual development of the eggs. It would be caused by heat.

“Do bird eggs get deformed because of cell phone tower radiation?”

No. Cell phone tower “radiation” is just radio waves. FM was more powerful back when it was screaming rock music through the air.

There is MUCH more radiation from the Sun.

Do any research you like. In particular, you might want to compare the case rates and the death rates from cancer to the proliferation of cellphones in the last twenty years. You will see that the cancer rate remains pretty much flat and the amount of cell phone usage has gone up a hundredfold. A total lack of correlation is a total lack of causation in my book.

Cell phone “radiation” simply isn’t harmful. Period. You get WAY more EM radiation from your microwave, your TV, your computer, the Sun, and the power lines overhead, and all of that is also pretty much harmless.

Is mobile tower radiation really harmful for birds and human beings?

Mobile tower radiation is a form of electromagnetic radiation that is emitted by the antennas installed on mobile phone towers. This radiation can have various effects on living organisms, especially birds and human beings, who are exposed to it for long periods of time. Some of the effects are:

- Physical and physiological changes: Mobile tower radiation can cause changes in the body temperature, blood pressure, heart rate, brain activity, and hormone levels of humans and birds. These changes can lead to stress, fatigue, insomnia, headache, memory loss, reduced immunity, and increased risk of cancer .

- Damage to plants and trees: Mobile tower radiation can affect the growth, development, and reproduction of plants and trees. It can reduce the germination, biomass, root length, and seedling vigor of some plants. It can also increase the enzyme activity and nodule formation of some plants. It can cause damage to the leaves, branches, and bark of some trees .

- Impact on bird behavior and population: Mobile tower radiation can interfere with the navigation, communication, foraging, and alertness of birds. It can also affect their egg-hatching and breeding success. It can reduce the diversity and abundance of bird species in areas with high radiation levels. It can increase the mortality rate of birds due to collisions with towers or predators .

Therefore, mobile tower radiation is indeed harmful for birds and human beings, as well as other living things in the environment. It is important to monitor and regulate the exposure levels of this radiation to protect the health and welfare of all living beings.

Your friend is either pulling your leg or is very bad at determining causal relationships. How does he know the 4G is killing them? Is he a bird pathologist that’s doing a necropsy on every single one?

The only way a bird could be killed by cellular RF energy is if it sat on a perch immediately in front of the antenna on a full-power base station, for hours on end without leaving. This would happen through internal heating. But have you ever tried to cook something with a light bulb? that’s essentially what would have to happen - a high power cellular base station operates around 50W. In cities, it’s much lower than that because cells cover much smaller areas. Even birds, as dumb as they are, will leave if they feel uncomfortable, which the internal heating would after a while.

Eggs may get deformed due to a number of issues, particularly when the hen does not have sufficient calcium.

Cell phone radiation is being blamed for human brain cancers - which appears to have been increasing over recent years. However, the cell phone companies have been very active in trying to refute this.

I am not convinced by their arguments - to my mind they are producing science to justify a particular result.

And to my mind, the jury is still out when considering whether high frequency radiation causes or contributes to brain cancers in some people, but not all people.

Back to eggs. If your hen has been properly nourished since being hatched, you ought not get deformed eggs.

If there is an occasional egg, there is probably no reason to worry. But if most eggs are deformed then it is time to seek the advice of an avian vet.

If you are asking because you live near a cell phone tower, I would seriously consider selling up and moving to a different location. The towers are disastrous for property values - and this would be my first consideration.

You put a lot of money into a home and if you can’t benefit well from rising property values then - as a former metropolitan newspaper real estate editor - I would advise you to invest your money into a different location.

Yes they are, but not in the way you are thinking.
Cellular towers when getting the signal from the phone need to pass it along to the control centre and this can be done ether by cable in the ground or by a high density microwave beam. When you take a look at the cellular towers, most probably you could see a drum like white or grey boxes.
Those are directional microwave antennas, that are aimed at another such antenna on a nearby tower. They are very powerful since they need to transmit the entire tower traffic thru them, and they do that by having direct microwave beam blasting to another target antenna.
Those antennas are very warm, so in cold climates birds like to sit and even nest next to those antennas, most of the reclamations we had on those were because a bird actually broke thru the housing and made a nest inside the antenna itself. But those things are basically a microwave oven set at 300watt, which is not enough to cook the bird instantly, but sure is enough to kill it over time.

First of all movies never tell the truth, but for your question here is solution..

As per my friend's latest study on impacts of communication towers on wildlife including birds and bees submitted to Ministry of Environment and Forest warns of harmful radiation and recommends special laws to protect urban flora & fauna from threats radiation emerging from mobile towers.The transmission towers are based on the electromagnetic waves, which over prolonged usage have adverse impacts on humans as well as on other fauna. The adverse effects of electromagnetic radiation from mobile phones and communication towers on health of human beings are well documented today. However, exact correlation between radiation of communication towers and wildlife, are not yet very well established. The Ministry of Environment and Forests usually receives several questions regarding this issue. In view of one such Lok Sabha Starred question regarding ‘Ill effects of Mobile Towers on Birds’ received on 11th August, 2010, an ‘Expert committee to Study the possible Impacts of Communication Towers on Wildlife including Birds and Bees’ was constituted on 30th August, 2010 by Ministry of Environment and Forest, Government of India

legitimate proof? no.

With thousands upon thousands of engineers and technicians working on all kinds of much, much higher power transmitters day in and day out since the beginning of radio somewhere around one hundred years ago, there has been no indications of any kind of detrimental health effects.

Some poorly designed studies claimed to show something, but the flaws in them were easily spotted. One study even showed that male rats that had high levels of cell type RF sent into their cages, actually lived longer.

People are going crazy spreading all kinds of nonsense by claiming uncertainty where there is none at all after, as I say, around 100 years for something to show up.

Q: Is there any legitimate proof and/or evidence of non-ionizing radiation (from cell towers and antennae) being harmful to living organisms? If so, could you please provide such sources and documentation?

Yes but the bird would have to be sitting there for a long time. Hold your head about six inches away from a 100 watt light bulb. Do this long enough and you will suffer severe radiation burns. Move a foot away and it can still happen but it will take a much longer period of time. Three feet away and the bird will die of old age before it would die from the radiated energy. The easyes way to understand how radio waves will harm you is to think about how a light would harm you. How close could you stand to a 1000 or 1500 watt light bulb? Some AM radio stations put out 25,000 to 50,000 watts. Standing too close to them is going to fry your innards. But the radiation source for most radio stations are way up in the air. A bird sitting on top of an antenna of a radio station is in much more danger than it will ever be sitting on a cell phone tower. Yet we have been using AM, FM and UHF for about 100 years. With little or no real evidence that it has caused harm to wild life. On the other hand there was this guy—— Oh well that is a story for another time.

Do cell towers omit radiation?

Assuming you mean emit rather omit - yes they do.

Here are some other things that emit radiation:

This is the first thing that many people think of when they hear the word ‘radiation’ - fallout from atomic bombs and nuclear accidents.

I get it - it’s a scary word. But radiation merely means an energy source that radiates out from something - light and heat are both forms of radiation. So are radio waves, and you mobile phone wouldn’t work without both it and the tower sending out some sort of electromagnetic radiation (as opposed to radioactivity).

The thing about radiation is that it’s the dose that makes it harmful. I’d have no qualms about having that table lamp from earlier in the picture on my desk, but I wouldn’t want to have this a couple of feet away from my head for an entire working day.

Likewise, the amount of electromagnetic radiation from your mobile phone is tiny. The amount that comes from a mobile phone base station is higher - but it’s spread out over a wide area. Like that film light above, I wouldn’t want to sit two feet away from the antenna of a base station, but I’m perfectly happy to have them up high where they’re a long way away from me.

Without any question they radiate microwave radiation that could be harmful. But you don’t have one in your living space. The antennas Are typically quite high and the antennas focus their output. The cell towers are a good distance away. The mobile phone radiation you might want to worry about is the radiation an inch from you head. The signal from your phone is making the same communication as the tower and at the same frequency and range. The radiation dissipates rapidly with distance If it were a “plane” of signal it would be with the square of the distance or the omni-directional phone has a pattern more like a sphere and would diminish with the cube of the distance.

There is a higher degree of cross debates which are on going on among various scientists and researchers as far as detrimental effects of radiation are concerned with different newer technoligical advances such as electronic gadgets,cellular towers and our constant exposure to U.V rays by various mediums of lights.Thus radiation is certainly causing damaging effects to both retina and brain cells and they are latest evidences in human beings that are supporting the risk of cancer on continuos exposure to devices and other mediums that emitts high intensity U.V rays.While as far as animals are concerned still there are no such established theory that interconnects causative aspects of cancers Even though cellular towers are installed for increasing connectivity and accessibility of various electronic devices that certainly emitts high intensity rays that are harmful to our vision and mind.But still to prove occurence of cancers with cellular towers there is need of much authentified data .

You can’t, nor is there any need to. Such radiation is non-ionizing, and at the low field strengths that one will encounter at any point other than within a few feet of the antenna is completely harmless. Even at short range, the only thing that can happen due to radio waves in these frequency ranges (microwaves) is localized tissue heating, and you would feel that long before any actual damage occurred. They’d have to be considerably more intense than anything you will normally experience for this to happen in the first place.

But in any event, you can no more neutralize these emissions than you can eliminate the transmissions of your local radio station. All you can possibly do is to create relatively small shielded areas, and that requires that you place whatever you want shielded completely within a conductive enclosure. There are no magic devices or objects that somehow “absorb” radio waves or otherwise “neutralize” them.

And here’s a very simple test to see if such measures are doing anything: if your smartphone, WiFi-connected devices, etc., are still working normally, they’re not.

There are already plenty of answers regarding this.

But no. There is no evidence that mobile-phone radiation - which is microwave radiation - can do real harm to humans.

It is non-ionizing; that is, it does not strip electrons from atoms. This is why people worry about “radiation.” Microwave radiation can only cause serious harm through heating (it takes a lot of power to heat things, more than a phone can muster), and the only reason your phone gets hot is because of battery-discharge or external forces.

If the radiation involved is ionizing, then there are certain controls that must be taken with it. (I work with this all the time.) However, there is no evidence that microwave radiation can cause damage to your body.
If there were, my personal dosimetry would have picked up on it. I literally wear detectors that measure such things. I’ve seen people survey cellphones with various radiacs (scintillation detectors, Geiger Mueller detectors, CICs, et cetera) and guess what? Nothing happens. (We knew nothing was going to happen, we just wanted to be able to say we saw such things with our own eyes so when anti-science idiots decided to insist such things were deadly, we could laugh at them.)

The population of birds has been steadily decreasing across the landscape of the world. But this is due to various reasons, like habitat destruction, increasing number of bird catchings, etc.Radiation from the cell phone towers are one of the main reasons the scientists are debating on.Cell phone towers have a huge impact on the health of Babies, Toddlers, Unborn children, Pregnant women, Seniors, Teens, Youngsters ,animals etc.

Infact, the whole ecosystem is being affected by the increasing cell phone towers.Yet its impact is unabated as the launch of 5G is on its move.If the telecommunications industry’s plans for 5G come to fruition, no person, no animal, no bird, no insect and no plant on Earth will be able to avoid exposure, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, to levels of RF radiation that are tens to hundreds of times greater than what exists today, without any possibility of escape anywhere on the planet. These 5G plans threaten to provoke serious, irreversible effects on humans and permanent damage to all of the Earth’s ecosystems.

The continous fall in the avian population in cities with a high number of cell tower structures and high RF exposures has been cited in various regions.

Some of the facts relating to the same CAN BE EXPLAINED IN A BETTER WAY by the following graphic.

I believe The wavelength of Mobile radiation is in Radio waves spectrum which is wider enough which is incapable to penetrate even molecules then how it will make cell damages.narrow the band , more damage in cell level occurs so we use gamma rays for cancer treatments.

Birds are known to be sensitive to magnetic radiation. Increasing number of cell phone towers in cities apparently are bringing down bird population. The microwaves (300 MHz to 300 GHz) emitted by cell phone towers and handsets has been found to be responsible for damaging eggs and embryos of sparrows.

Yes. Every mobile phone tower emits radiation. And so does your phone. It is called wireless communication. Do you think it is magic? No, simple physics. Phone and tower exchange radio waves which encode for your data. Radiation impact from your phone is 100 times higher than what you receive from the towers, because they are so close to you.

All serious studies, and realistic experience from 3 decades of mobile telephony clearly say: no risk with the tiny amount of radiation in mobile telephony. There are many ad hoc alarmist studies. I have gone through a number of them and shivered when I saw the level of ignorance, unjustified fear, fake, and bad methodology.With that you can prove that reading a book or watching TV is dangerous.