"Ask most people, and the image of wind turbines as bird killers still persists, often amplified by anti-renewable rhetoric. But if you look at the hard data, a different story emerges. It turns out that while wind turbines do kill birds, they are statistically insignificant compared to the bigger killers we have in our cities and in our bedrooms. In fact, when you factor in climate change, wind power might actually help birds."

Data not only shows the relative impact of wind turbines on bird deaths, but also gives us the insight to reduce their impact further.

https://www.zmescience.com/feature-post/technology-articles/sustainability/renewable-energy/birds-and-wind-turbines/

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The Myth That Wind Farms Are a Guillotine for Birds Is Being Debunked by Hard Data

The harm caused by wind turbines isn't nearly as bad as you think.

ZME Science

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The argument is made that billions of birds are killed by cats.

Cats live with humans, in areas denuded of natural predators.

I always wonder how the number of birds killed by cats would compare to the number of birds killed by predators, if those predators had not been removed.

The birds we care about most are the endangered ones.

I think we can be pretty sure that no cat has ever brought down a golden eagle on its own.

@number6 The claim about cats isn't false, but it's misleading because it's too vague. It's FERAL cats killing birds, not house cats. House cats can and sometimes do take birds, but their proportion is vanishingly small compared to ferals, who are much better at it and HAVE to do it, to survive.

More aggressive feral cat management (esp. through Trap - Neuter - Release) would make the most difference. Locking up house cats, probably NO noticeable difference.