Do small wind turbines kill birds?
While no such studies have been performed specifically for small wind turbines, anecdotal evidence indicates that birds occasionally collide with small wind turbines as they do with any other type of structure. However, such events are rare and very unlikely to have any impact on bird populations. Large, utility-scale wind turbines account for less than 0. 0 03% of all human-caused bird deaths, and small wind turbines have even less of an impact. House cats in the U.S., by contrast, are estimated to kill roughly one billion birds each year. Statistically, a single house cat, a window pane, or an automobile is a much greater threat to birds than a wind turbine of any size. More reading: Wind-Wildlife Interaction at ifnotwind.
While no studies have been done of this question, anecdotal evidence indicates that birds occasionally collide with small wind turbines, as they do with any other type of structure. However, such events are rare and very unlikely to have any impact on bird populations. House cats in the US, by contrast, are estimated to kill roughly one billion birds each year. Statistically, a single house cat is a much greater threat to birds than a small wind turbine.
Anecdotal evidence indicates that birds occasionally collide with small wind turbines, as they do with any other type of structure. However, such events are rare and very unlikely to have any impact on bird populations. House cats in the U.S., by contrast, are estimated to kill roughly one billion birds each year. Statistically, a single house cat is a much greater threat to birds than a small wind turbine.
