Bird shredders? Number of birds killed by wind turbines dwarfed by buildings, electric lines, more

CASPER, Wyo.– Wind turbines are often mentioned as a risk to birds. While about 140,000-500,000 birds die from crashes with turbines each year in the United States, those numbers are overshadowed by the amount of birds passing away from a range of other human-related elements. According to the United States>>>

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I never understood wind: Trump goes on bizarre tirade against wind turbines | US news | The Guardian

He says he knows more about Isis than his generals, and claims to understand politicians “better than anybody”. Now there is another subject in which Donald Trump’s expert knowledge surpasses that of everybody else: wind turbines, though he calls them windmills. “I’ve studied it better than anybody I know,” the>>>

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