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I'm pretty sure domestic cats kill more birds than windmills.

Yes, by several orders of magnitude. Last I checked, Windmills killed 100s of thousands since their inception while domestic cats kill billions each year.

You are high by at least an order of magnitude, if not two. Most estimates I’ve seen put the number of bird deaths from windmills in the thousands across all time.

I think you're mixing up the stats on eagle deaths (I posted a link elsewhere in this discussion for those, and they are indeed just a couple hundred a year at most) with that of all birds.

The number of birds killed by windmills is likely somewhere in the six figures annually. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/how-many-birds-do-...

> In the end, using 58 mortality estimates that met their criteria, they came up with an estimate. According to the current literature somewhere between 140,000 and 328,000 birds die each year from collisions with wind turbines.

You are right, it was your link re: eagles and another I found on Google re: endangered birds, not all birds in general. My bad, so thanks!

And like I said, it's not a concern yet, but like many other things they start as not a huge issue on a small scale and then all of a sudden it's an issue.

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