@Mina@dcjohnson And even that graphic seems to paint a distorted picture.
Housecats are - accordimg to the source - accountable for 20 to 100 million bird deaths.
That is a pretty huge range. The difference alone is the amount of birds killed in traffic...
Lets take the average which would be 60 million. And suddenly traffic is the biggest killer...
I call bullshit on this chart. 100 million birds dying from crashing into buildings? That works out to 273K birds a day. There would massive amounts of dead birds lying on the ground near buildings.
@dcjohnson We hear about people bothered by wind turbine noise, yet super highways don't bother them. Got out of the car on country road and walked right up to a turbine. Can't hear it within 100 meters.
One of the problems is that cats will tear apart, eat, or hide the remains of birds they kill.
Turbines drop all their kills in one spot in a neat little pile.
I'm trying to decide if training the cats to leave their kills in a common pile, or training something else to scatter the ones from the turbines would be easier.
@dcjohnson EXACTLY!
Same goes for #bats: Most get killed by habitat destruction, artificial noise - based desorientation, agricultural chemicals and whatnot.
Compared to that, the amount of deaths caused by wind turbines is negligible.
Tho it's easier to collect the carcasses that do get flatlined by blunt force kinetic trauma and heavy disturbances at near-miss distances than say those dying a slow and painful death in some forest or getting clapped by cats when they're exhausted on the ground.
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