With the world’s wind turbines slicing and dicing thousands of eagles, owls, hawks, and kites every day, wind farms are more slaughterhouses than power generators.
Millions of tonnes of beneficial bugs get splattered annually, along with millions of birds and bats, some of them being among the last of their kind. At the apex of the avian carcass heap are the thousands of eagles, wiped out in the blink of an eye.
Cars, cats and skyscrapers don’t kill Eagles – like the critically endangered Tasmanian wedge-tailed eagle, but 60m wind turbine blades with their tips travelling at 350Kph routinely smash them out of existence. Although, as this story from the Netherlands details, the victims often die a slow and horrible death.
White-tailed eagle, once again tagged in the Netherlands, killed by wind turbine
News Fox-24
Stef van Rijn, Dirk van Straalen and Ralph Buij
4 February 2022
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