Wind farm bird deaths vs fossil fuel & nuclear power bird deaths (via clean technica) this article was jointly written by one of cleantechnica's readers and zachary shahan.
New How Many Birds Are Killed By Windmills
Pictures. Some say just 10,000 birds a year meet their end at the hands (blades) of the wind industry. If you look around for statistics about bird deaths from wind turbines get you wildly different numbers.
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Windmills kill anywhere from 234,000 to 328,000 birds a year, according to a study by federal scientists. Some say just 10,000 birds a year meet their end at the hands (blades) of the wind industry. Wind mills may kill about 33,000, though there are countless problems with this kind of study and we really have no idea what this number is.
Researchers paints a blade black on four wind turbines on island of smola
Adding together the author's cited numbers of birds killed annually by the seven other modes equals 5,030,000,000 (5.03 billion) birds. News and world report has compiled data on which energy industries are responsible for the most bird deaths every year. Wind turbines kill between 214,000 and 368,000 birds annually — a small fraction compared with the estimated 6.8 million fatalities from collisions with cell and radio towers and the 1.4. Secretary of the interior ryan zinke claimed tuesday that wind farms kill up to 750,000 birds a year.
