New study: Bird and bat deaths at wind turbines

SCIENCE • CONSERVATION • NEWS • EVENTS • LETTERS A study recently published in PLOS ONE collected data from 248 wind turbine facilities — across the United States — to examine bird and bat fatalities. Conducted by the Renewable Energy Wildlife Institute, the authors analyzed daily carcass counts between 2009 and 2021 for nearly 4000 birds and more than 10,00 bats killed at turbine sites. “First and foremost, this study helps us understand why certain species of birds and bats are more likely to collide with wind turbines than others,” said John Lloyd, the lead author. “But it also highlights the power of collaborative research — our analysis, and the patterns that it uncovered, was only possible because we could draw on data from hundreds of different studies conducted across…

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