http://www.livescience.com/31995-how-do-wind-turbines-kill-birds.html
Wind turbines kill more than 573,000 birds each year in the United States, according to The Associated Press, including federally protected species like bald eagles and golden eagles. [In Photos: Birds of Prey]
Even bats are falling victim to wind-turbine blades: The Pennsylvania Game Commission estimates that more than 10,000 bats are killed in the state each year by wind turbines, the Wall Street Journal reports.
Agree, cats are #1 killer of birds and other small critters. Cats Kill Way More Birds than Wind Turbines Cat's out of the proverbial bag. Per Loss et al 2013, feral cats kill most of the 87,000 times as many birds (in the US alone) than do all of the wind turbines in the world do, combined. That's 3.7 BILLION bird deaths per year, by cats alone... in the United States.
I am all for wind farms, but I would think they could make a small wire protective screen around each fan perhaps or set up some ultrasonic sounds to detere flying creatures from wanting to go in there?
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