Reply #19: Overblown? [View All]

[XemaSab]

Seems like one of those things where it depends on how you look at the data, and what you consider a "significant" loss of migratory birds. The number of birds that are killed from hitting windows is probably a fraction of the birds that run out of juice crossing the Gulf of Mexico. Ditto for birds that fly into windmills, but I think the major concern with windmills is that many of those bird strikes are raptors, and windmills are frequently placed in windy, grassy areas that raptors use for hunting or migration corridors.

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