Mastodawn

In the U.S., recent annual estimates of bird deaths due to:

Cats = 2.4 billion bird deaths

Collisions from building glass = 600 million bird deaths

Land wind turbines = <200,000 bird deaths

Some politicians claim wind turbines “kill all the birds.”

But… they’re not really worried about birds. Rather, they prefer we stick with oil & gas over renewable #energy.

This chart shows the estimated range of annual human-caused bird deaths in the U.S., by source.

Statista Daily Data

@Sheril I see US Fish and Wildlife left off humans (hunters) from their chart.

@Sheril from 2003 ...

"Hunting – as a point of reference the carefully-managed annual waterfowl hunt kills about 15 million birds a year in North America."