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In the U.S., recent annual estimates of bird deaths due to:
Cats = 2.4 billion bird deaths
Collisions from building glass = 600 million bird deaths
Land wind turbines = <200,000 bird deaths
Some politicians claim wind turbines “kill all the birds.”
But… they’re not really worried about birds. Rather, they prefer we stick with oil & gas over renewable #energy.
https://www.statista.com/chart/amp/15195/wind-turbines-are-not-killing-fields-for-birds/ #climatechange
@Sheril I see US Fish and Wildlife left off humans (hunters) from their chart.
@Sheril from 2003 ...
"Hunting – as a point of reference the carefully-managed annual waterfowl hunt kills about 15 million birds a year in North America."
https://www.sibleyguides.com/conservation/causes-of-bird-mortality/