Birdwatch Note Rating
2024-08-08 15:47:05 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: 35344A3477ACE274D11927106971ABC910E0190B697A29E4E1E4698A00CB36F5
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Original Note:
While windmills kill birds it’s a tiny percentage and misleading to say that windmills are largely responsible. 2.4 billion birds are killed by domestic cats each year 600 million by flying into glass windows. 700 thousand birds killed by wind turbines annually. https://www.sibleyguides.com/conservation/causes-of-bird-mortality/ https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/wind/wind-turbines-kill-too-many-birds-and-bats-how-can-we-make-them-safer#:~:text=Each%20turbine%20yields%20four%20to,carcasses%20carried%20away%20by%20scavengers). https://abcbirds.org/blog21/wind-turbine-mortality/ https://climate.mit.edu/ask-mit/do-wind-turbines-kill-birds
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