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For comparison, cats kill between 1.4 billion and 3.7 billion birds a year (https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/outdoor-cats-kill-between-14-
by aqme28 7y ago
For comparison, cats kill between 1.4 billion and 3.7 billion birds a year (https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/outdoor-cats-kill-between-14-billion-and-37-billion-birds-a-year-study-says/2013/01/31/2504f744-6bbe-11e2-ada0-5ca5fa7ebe79_story.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/outdo...)
- Consultant32452 7y agoRight, and wind constitutes less than 5% of total energy production. I'm not anti-wind, but we can't pretend massive growth in wind production will have no impact.
- aqme28 7y agoSo what you're saying is that with 100% wind production, it's now millions of birds. That's still about 3 orders of magnitude less of an impact than cats.
- greedo 7y agoCats tend to kill small birds that aren't considered very valuable. House sparrows for example are a dime a dozen, and are an invasive species. Turbine blades tend to kill larger birds, usually raptors that have populations that regenerate slowly.