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by mschuster91 1922 days ago
The species of birds that get killed are different. Wind turbines kill bigger birds, cats kill small songbirds.

Both are a non-negligible factor for their respective species.

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Windmills generate more than 1% of power. Thus if you scale up the wind turbines by 100x (to cover more than all power generated over the world), they still kill over 100x fewer birds than cats.