Pretty hard to get any statistics other than from wind farm developers. We do know certain types of birds, raptors primarily are dispoportionately affected. They are attracted to the towers and like the same air. Raptors have low reproductive rates which makes their deaths far more serious. The sheer amount of turbines in rural areas where no tall hazzards were ever present is a problem and of course the total lack of any impartial science as this all takes place on private property. Turbines may not kill more birds than a 40 storey building but there is a hell of a lot of them and more daily.
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There might be something to that. If you recall your high school physics. Truth is we know shit about wind and climate.
Pretty hard to get any statistics other than from wind farm developers. We do know certain types of birds, raptors primarily are dispoportionately affected. They are attracted to the towers and like the same air. Raptors have low reproductive rates which makes their deaths far more serious. The sheer amount of turbines in rural areas where no tall hazzards were ever present is a problem and of course the total lack of any impartial science as this all takes place on private property. Turbines may not kill more birds than a 40 storey building but there is a hell of a lot of them and more daily.