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The Myth That Wind Farms Are a Guillotine for Birds Is Being Debunked by Hard Data
(www.zmescience.com)
this post was submitted on 07 Mar 2026
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The sky is never pure white, and i'm not saying all birds will fly into them if the sky and the windmill are a perfect match. But at the same time, if it were a bright colour less birds would fly into it. Collisions will still happen. It also has to do with the blades rotating, but also that is easier to calculate when the blades are very visible. Still the best thing is to do turn them off sometimes. Best case scenario would be that you can switch over to a source that is also renewable.
It will still kill less birds than coal and oil, and again they will still distinguish it even if it's the ssme color of the sky, very few birds will collide with it;
I DO NOT know if this image tells the truth, i don't have enough time to do a real research just for a lemmy comment so just search it up if you have more time than me