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[quote=Anonymous][quote=SAM2][quote=Anonymous]Man-made structure/technology: Associated bird deaths per year (U.S.)
Feral and domestic cats: Hundreds of millions [source: AWEA]
Power lines: 130 million -- 174 million [source: AWEA]
Windows (residential and commercial): 100 million -- 1 billion [source: TreeHugger]
Pesticides: 70 million [source: AWEA]
Automobiles: 60 million -- 80 million [source: AWEA]
Lighted communication towers: 40 million -- 50 million [source: AWEA]
Wind turbines: 10,000 -- 40,000 [source: ABC][/quote]

Good post.  I like it when people do the research to put data in perspective. Thank you.[/quote]

Note that the source of most of these numbers is AWEA (the American Wind Energy Association).  I think the other point is that the "millions" of birds supposedly killed by windows etc are small, common birds.  Windmills are placed at ridge lines and other sources of high wind, which are common areas for large endangered raptors to congregate (and get whacked by turbine blades).  If any other source of energy was killing tens of thousands of large birds, they'd be shut down in a heartbeat.  [/quote]

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