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Counting the carcasses is a very flawed analysis. In cities you rarely find far less carcasses of raptors, vultures and storks. In your analysis this would lead you to making a larger built environment is a good measure to save endangered species. It would even be illegal not to do so.



Is true that we should keep in mind that there is an implicit "at least" 150 eagles killed by just one company. Plus all the other bird species. This value is a minimum estimation.

Several scientific studies calculate than between 234,000 and 573,093 birds on average are killed by year in USA by windmills. Big and small species. Data points that bats suffer even more than birds. (See Smallwood. 2010. The Journal of the wildlife management 71, issue 8 for example).


I do not understand why you would reply this to my comment. It seems that you are single minded about windmills like a fictional character.

Without context these numbers mean nothing. Species are displaced by human existence, acting like windmills are the biggest danger and supporting the fossil fuel industry, like you are doing, is not going to help birds or other animals.


> Is true that we should keep in mind that there is an implicit "at least" 150 eagles killed by just one company

Wind company permit allows killing 1000+ eagles. This company just did not get it. 150 is basically nothing.




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