Wind farms damage nature

When it comes to energy production, there’s no such thing as a free lunch!

Wind power facilities can harm birds through direct collisions with turbines and other structures, including power lines. Wind power facilities can also degrade or destroy habitat, and disrupt important ecological links. 

Placing wind projects where birds are known to ascend or descend during migration may put them at more risk. Up to 700,000 bird deaths occur per year in the US alone due to turbine collisions. Now that may not be an enormous number when set against birds killed by cats, and collisions with buildings, but many of the birds killed by wind turbine blades are migrating birds of prey, wild swans and geese, all of which are in the rarer category, compared with house sparrows and other small passerines.