Reading this chart is a little tricky. Note that the chart shows
total (estimated) deaths for each fuel type - not per unit of energy, but total. Since the vast majority of our energy presently is generated by coal, oil & gas, it is not surprising that those energies presently kill most of the birds. However, it was a little distressing to see that wind, which generates less than 10% as much energy as oil and gas at this time, kills 30% as many birds - meaning that for each unit of energy generated, wind is killing more than three times as many birds as oil & gas. Even coal, which clearly has a horrible impact on birds, seems not to be worse than wind when the amount of energy generated by each is factored in. Surely we can do better than this by improving the siting and design of wind turbines!
Alicia
On 8/25/2014 9:28 PM, 'Judith & Reid Scher' via Maine birds wrote:
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