Wind turbines' deadly toll on migrating birds: Map highlights 'collision hotspots' in Europe and North Africa where owls, swans and eagles are at highest risk of being killed by power generators' blades 11th April, 2022 by Sophie Curtis for MailOnline Source: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-10707911/Wind-turbines-taking-deadly-toll-migrating-birds-Map-highlights-collision-hotspots.html University of East Anglia study identifies collision 'hotspots' for migrating birdsMany lie in … Continue reading Wind Turbines Deadly Toll
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Brown Shreds Wind Turbines-2019
'Of course, wind farms are ugly, and of course they also whimsically produce a totally unreliable electricity - here today, no wind tomorrow - that's turned our power system into an expensive joke. But they've also been killing many more birds than our planners predicted.' - Andrew Bolt
Bird Deaths From Wind Turbine’s Drop By 72% When One Blade Is Black
20th August, 2020 By Joe Pinkstone, Mailonline, www.dailymail.co.uk Researchers paints a blade black on four wind turbines on island of SmolaResearchers used sniffer dogs to look for bird carcasses underneath the turbinesAfter they were painted, the amount of bird deaths dropped by 72 per cent Painting one blade of a wind turbine makes it easier for … Continue reading Bird Deaths From Wind Turbine’s Drop By 72% When One Blade Is Black