6 ms·

The problem is generally trivial compared to the number killed by domestic cats and glass windows.

• ygra 7y ago
  For wind turbines at least there's a bit of a difference, as those kill larger birds than cats, in smaller numbers, but those birds also have smaller populations. So just looking at the numbers without knowing the birds and their total populations, makes things hard to compare or judge.
  • VBprogrammer 7y ago
    Sure, thought needs to go into the location of these things; avoiding migration routes and habitats of endangered birds. Using scarecrows and possible trained predator birds (presuming these can be trained to avoid the danger zone!) etc. Of course conventional industry doesn't get a free pass here either, treatment and storage ponds, climate change, habitat destruction etc.
  • usrusr 7y ago
    But aren't most larger birds predators that are highly habitat/food supply constrained? That kind of population could be quite resilient to moderate increases in mortality. (I might be assigning far more importance to predator-Peru cycles than is warranted though, I was reading about what I now found is called https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotka%E2%80%93Volterra_equations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotka%E2%80%93Volterra_equatio... at a very young age and the concept stuck for life)