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Although the percentage of birds killed by wind turbines may be low compared to other hazards, each wind turbine might kill a higher number of birds compared to
by pradn 10y ago
Although the percentage of birds killed by wind turbines may be low compared to other hazards, each wind turbine might kill a higher number of birds compared to a single building. That's probably why people are worried about them. That said, I don't know the numbers so I'm just speculating.
- cr1895 10y agoBuildings, cats, etc. kill many orders of magnitude more birds than wind turbines. Have a look at Table 1 on pg 4: http://sci-hub.cc/10.1146/annurev-ecolsys-112414-054133 http://sci-hub.cc/10.1146/annurev-ecolsys-112414-054133 It does get a bit misleading to generalize, because there may indeed be localized instances where turbines unduly affect a specific sensitive bird population.