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by hedora 87 days ago
Per-windmill bird fatalities are much, much lower for new windmills. They made some cosmetic changes that scare the birds off.

Also, it turns out that bird flight patterns are very stable from year to year, so they study flight patterns, and place the windmills out of the way.

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Yeah, see the reply I left with your sibling. I am in full agreement with you and wrote my comment way too quickly because I was trying to rebut the argument that windmills are in any way responsible for some crazy number of bird deaths.