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Best estimate of turbine bird deaths per year in the United States is under 3 million ... compared to 30 million death from overhead power lines ... we measure bird deaths from house cats as closer to 300 million ...
Complaining about blade-strikes is disingenuous or ill-informed ...
Those estimates are made up horse shit. The bird deaths from cats was a guesstimate from 2 million to 58 million. That guess is so wide as to be useless.
It also doesn't matter. It's the type of bird being killed. Raptors are rare and the top of the bird pyramid. Bats are one of the primary insect controls. THOSE are victims of windmills. The other birds are common as dirt.