As the bird and bat carcass count mounts, it gets harder to ignore the wind industry’s bloody and unnecessary slaughter of our feathered friends.
Those running ‘interference’ for the wind industry claim wind turbines couldn’t harm a fly, let alone kill birds of any consequence. Apparently having no experience of apex predators like Eagles, Kites, Hawks and Falcons, the wind cultist/apologist/propagandist asserts that more birds are killed by flying into windows or being struck by cars, than their beloved wind turbines.
Cars, cats and skyscrapers don’t kill Eagles – like the critically endangered Tasmanian wedge-tailed eagle, but 60m wind turbine blades with their tips travelling at 350Kph routinely smash them out of existence.
Millions of tonnes of beneficial bugs get splattered annually, too, but no mind – this is all about saving the Planet, right?
In his article below, Joel Merriman gets drawn into the line spread by the wind industry and its apologists; namely, the idea that cats are comparable to wind turbines when it comes to killing birds. Comparing abundant sparrows and rare and endangered Bald Eagles, is no comparison at all. But it’s one that the wind industry all too readily makes. And one which we will return to, later in the post.
Are Wind Turbines A Significant Threat To Birds?
American Bird Conservancy
Joel Merriman
2 March 2021
