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<blockquote data-quote="DriveInDriѵeOut" data-source="post: 1307271" data-attributes="member: 44954">- Wind farms kill roughly 0.27 birds per Gigawatt hour (GWh).- Nuclear plants kill about 0.6 birds per GWh. (2.2x wind)- Fossil-fueled power stations kill about 9.4 birds per GWh. (34.8x wind)(Source: Journal of Integrative Environmental Sciences vol. 9, no. 4, December 2012, 255-278)Pesticides kill 72 million birds directly, but an unknown and probably larger number ingest the poisons and die later unseen. Orphaned chicks also go uncounted....strikes against building windows alone account for anywhere from 97 million to nearly 976 million bird deaths a year. Cars kill another 60 million or so. High-tension transmission and power distribution lines are also deadly obstacles. ....174 million birds die each year by flying into these wires. None of these numbers take into account the largest killer of birds in America: loss of habitat to development.<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/18/science/18birds.html" target="_blank">http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/18/science/18birds.html</a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="DriveInDriѵeOut, post: 1307271, member: 44954"] - Wind farms kill roughly 0.27 birds per Gigawatt hour (GWh). - Nuclear plants kill about 0.6 birds per GWh. (2.2x wind) - Fossil-fueled power stations kill about 9.4 birds per GWh. (34.8x wind) (Source: Journal of Integrative Environmental Sciences vol. 9, no. 4, December 2012, 255-278) Pesticides kill 72 million birds directly, but an unknown and probably larger number ingest the poisons and die later unseen. Orphaned chicks also go uncounted. ...strikes against building windows alone account for anywhere from 97 million to nearly 976 million bird deaths a year. Cars kill another 60 million or so. High-tension transmission and power distribution lines are also deadly obstacles. ....174 million birds die each year by flying into these wires. None of these numbers take into account the largest killer of birds in America: loss of habitat to development. [url]http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/18/science/18birds.html[/url] [/QUOTE]

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