Birds won't be happy, unfortunately. Yet, better than wrecking Earth's cycles by pumping to much garbage in the atmosphere like we do today.
https://www.fws.gov/library/collections/threats-birds
234,012 - Collisions: Land-based wind turbines
6,600,000 - Collisions: Communication towers
72,000,000 - Pesticides & other poisons
214,500,000 - Collision: Vehicles
599,000,000 - Collision: Glass skyscrapers
2,400,000,000 - Predation by cats
[Unknown] - Habitat loss and climate change
These are just some estimates of some admittedly very difficult to capture data, but the orders of magnitude differences are revealing nonetheless.
The choice, if between coal-fired plants and windmills should be pretty obvious to birds. Sure we may not see them getting splashed to bits with coal-fired plants but they are silently getting ill/dying over time.
I'm not anti-nuclear, but the risk profile is SO different from wind.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price%E2%80%93Anderson_Nuclear...
It’s a necessity, and extremely logical and reasonable.
They’re insured the exact same way the banks are.
As is the power generation profile. Wind/solar/tidal are important to develop, and the risk profile should include whatever peaker or storage backs up the variability in generation.