Bird fatalities drop by 72% when one rotor of wind turbine is painted black.#windturbines #greenenergy #birdshttps://www.ecoportal.net/en/painting-norwegian-island-black-turbine-blade-white-tailed-eagles/29212/
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Bird fatalities drop by 72% when one rotor of wind turbine is painted black.
#windturbines
#greenenergy
#birds
https://www.ecoportal.net/en/painting-norwegian-island-black-turbine-blade-white-tailed-eagles/29212/I hear the same is true if you paint stripes on the blades. You just need something to breakup the white in the colour scheme.
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@Clutha Don't know about UK, but a quick search tells me that the bird death toll fron wind turbines is about one million per year in the US. That number pales beside deaths caused by predatory house cats, which is about one billion.
As a lover of both cats and birds, I urge cat owners to keep their pets indoors.
"That number pales beside deaths caused by predatory house cats..."
It's also lower than the number of birds killed by fossil fuel pollution.
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Bird fatalities drop by 72% when one rotor of wind turbine is painted black.
#windturbines
#greenenergy
#birds
https://www.ecoportal.net/en/painting-norwegian-island-black-turbine-blade-white-tailed-eagles/29212/ -
"That number pales beside deaths caused by predatory house cats..."
It's also lower than the number of birds killed by fossil fuel pollution.
@csstrowbridge @Clutha
Sadly, there are many, many man-made causes, most of which are swept under the rug, just accepted as the cost of doing business.
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I hear the same is true if you paint stripes on the blades. You just need something to breakup the white in the colour scheme.
@csstrowbridge @Barbramon1 It's great that attention is being paid to making wind turbines safer. I remember someone posting about the painted stripes study: https://fediscience.org/@tksst/116572461662273381
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@Clutha Don't know about UK, but a quick search tells me that the bird death toll fron wind turbines is about one million per year in the US. That number pales beside deaths caused by predatory house cats, which is about one billion.
As a lover of both cats and birds, I urge cat owners to keep their pets indoors.@Barbramon1 @Clutha Exactly! Opponents of wind power cite bird deaths, but a thousand times more birds are killed by house cats. And a similar huge number die from striking building windows.
So while I’m all in favour of any way to mitigate bird deaths, those who cite these deaths as a reason to oppose wind power are being disingenuous.
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Bird fatalities drop by 72% when one rotor of wind turbine is painted black.
#windturbines
#greenenergy
#birds
https://www.ecoportal.net/en/painting-norwegian-island-black-turbine-blade-white-tailed-eagles/29212/@Barbramon1 Wonder what would happen if it would be painted pink instead.
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@Barbramon1 @Clutha Exactly! Opponents of wind power cite bird deaths, but a thousand times more birds are killed by house cats. And a similar huge number die from striking building windows.
So while I’m all in favour of any way to mitigate bird deaths, those who cite these deaths as a reason to oppose wind power are being disingenuous.
@michaelgemar @Clutha In many cases those who oppose wind turbines are not disingenuous, but are simply lying. It's typical of fossil fuel promoters.
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Bird fatalities drop by 72% when one rotor of wind turbine is painted black.
#windturbines
#greenenergy
#birds
https://www.ecoportal.net/en/painting-norwegian-island-black-turbine-blade-white-tailed-eagles/29212/That is great news!
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@Barbramon1 Wonder what would happen if it would be painted pink instead.
@liiwi @Barbramon1
ooo, this opens up a whole rainbow of research. should it be 2-1 colouring, or 1-1-1? and which combos work best? just dark vs light, or spread out on the colour wheel? -
Bird fatalities drop by 72% when one rotor of wind turbine is painted black.
#windturbines
#greenenergy
#birds
https://www.ecoportal.net/en/painting-norwegian-island-black-turbine-blade-white-tailed-eagles/29212/@Barbramon1 I found an earlier article about this experiment that looks like it wasn't written with an LLM. https://www.norwegianamerican.com/for-the-birds/
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@Clutha Don't know about UK, but a quick search tells me that the bird death toll fron wind turbines is about one million per year in the US. That number pales beside deaths caused by predatory house cats, which is about one billion.
As a lover of both cats and birds, I urge cat owners to keep their pets indoors.@Barbramon1 Thank you for this and the above article.
Off-topic, I know, but would you also have any recommendations re the figure on cats and bird deaths?
(I've tried to search for a source before, but couldn't find one, and it's come up a few times here at home - cat and birb lover here at home in Ireland, too!)
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@Barbramon1 Thank you for this and the above article.
Off-topic, I know, but would you also have any recommendations re the figure on cats and bird deaths?
(I've tried to search for a source before, but couldn't find one, and it's come up a few times here at home - cat and birb lover here at home in Ireland, too!)
@clickhere @Clutha I found the US figure of approximately one billion deaths with a simple search. There seems to be plenty of evidence from many sources. I have been reading about it for 20 years or more.
I have kept my cats indoors since the 80s to protect them. Saving birds is a big dividend. -
@Barbramon1 @Clutha Exactly! Opponents of wind power cite bird deaths, but a thousand times more birds are killed by house cats. And a similar huge number die from striking building windows.
So while I’m all in favour of any way to mitigate bird deaths, those who cite these deaths as a reason to oppose wind power are being disingenuous.
@michaelgemar @Barbramon1 @Clutha I guess the building windows issue is even increasing with the fad of having whole walls be mostly glass?
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@clickhere @Clutha I found the US figure of approximately one billion deaths with a simple search. There seems to be plenty of evidence from many sources. I have been reading about it for 20 years or more.
I have kept my cats indoors since the 80s to protect them. Saving birds is a big dividend.@clickhere @Clutha
Here is one example of an article from a reliable source. Their figures are much higher than what I initially posted. It seems very difficult to pin down an estimate, but there are a huge number of cat related deaths. https://abcbirds.org/solutions/keep-cats-indoors/ -
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