According to a study conducted at a wind farm on the Norwegian archipelago of Smøla, changing the color of a single blade on a turbine from white to black resulted in a 70-percent drop in the number of bird deaths.
As long as you put the turbines in the right spot, wind power is reliably cheaper than burning fossil fuels.
And most people would prefer to live next to a wind farm than any other kind of power plant—even solar.
Bird deaths caused by wind power may be overstated then, but they do still occur.
(Another four turbines selected as a control group were responsible for seven bird deaths, excluding willow ptarmigans, over the same timeframe.).
In the three years that followed, only six birds were found dead due to striking their turbine blades.
By comparison, 18 bird deaths were recorded by the four control wind turbines—a 71.9-percent reduction in the annual fatality rate. »
