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Podcast: Cascade CounterPoint
Episode: Renewable Energy Source or Bird Chopper?
Description: The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service estimates up to 500,000 birds are killed annually in the United States due to wind turbine collisions. The number of deaths will continue to increase as more turbines populate our nation’s landscape.
Raptors are especially vulnerable to colliding with wind turbines due to their flight patterns. They typically soar during high winds, bringing them in line with spinning turbines that appear to them as nothing more than a blur.
The first wind farm to formally ask the Fish and Wildlife Service for permission to harm golden eagles is located ri...