How many birds are killed by wind turbines?

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asked Dec 23, 2019 in Green Living by knotgoo (430 points)
How many birds are killed by wind turbines?

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answered Dec 28, 2019 by Adf289 (58,200 points)
It's estimated that around 575,000 birds of different species are killed each year by wind turbines.

That's a lot of birds that are killed by wind turbines but we still need the wind turbines.

Birds will be killed by other things as well so even if we stopped using wind turbines which we won't the birds will still be killed by other things.

It's estimated that there are 14 to 15 eagles killed by wind turbines every year.

Aside from just eagles there are many other birds that are killed in the USA by wind turbines.

An estimated 573,000 birds are killed by wind turbines annually in the United States.

Still having wind turbines for electric generation is a good thing because the electricity is made using renewable energy as long as there is wind there will be electricity.

I hate to see the birds and eagles killed by the wind turbines but I'm still all for wind turbines as we need them because eventually we will run out of fossil fuels.

Some electricity is made using nuclear power, natural gas, coal etc and some electricity is generated using wind.

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