Environmental impact of wind power
Birds

Environmental impact of wind power

Section Title: Birds
Table Section Text: None

Source	Estimated mortality (in millions)	Estimated deaths (per GWh)

Wind turbines	0.02 – 0.57	0.269

Aircraft	0.08	(n/a)

Nuclear power plants	0 - 0.33	0 - 0.416

Oilfield oil waste & waste water pits	0.50 – 1	(n/a)

Nuisance bird control kills (airports, agriculture, etc...)	2	(n/a)

Communication towers (cellular, radio, microwave)	4 – 50	(n/a)

Large communications towers (over 180', N. America)	6.8	(n/a)

Fossil fuel powerplants	14	5.18

Cars & trucks	50 – 100	(n/a)

Agriculture	67	(n/a)

Pesticide use	72	(n/a)

Hunting	100 – 120	(n/a)

Transmission lines (conventional powerplants)	174 – 175	(n/a)

Buildings and windows	365 – 988	(n/a)

Domestic and feral cats	210 – 3,700	(n/a)

Sentence(s)

In environmental impact of wind power, 57 million are killed by cars and 365 to 988 million are killed by collisions with buildings.

final_sentence: In environmental impact of wind power, 57 million are killed by cars and 365 to 988 million are killed by collisions with buildings.