The Truth About Bird Deaths: Wind Turbines vs Cats #shorts

Added: 2026-05-05

[00:00:00]For every one bird killed by a wind turbine, I kind of have people guess how many birds are killed by cats. And that number is 24,000.

[00:00:09]So, that kind of gives a perspective where the wind turbines um For every bird death from a wind turbine, there's 24,000 by cats. That's correct. Wow, okay. So, wind turbines represent maybe the seventh or eighth um biggest killer of birds in the United States. Um there's a lot of other structures um such as buildings, there's transmission lines, there's cars, um there's uh radio towers, all those sort of things that kill more birds than uh wind turbines do.

[00:00:38]Yeah, I mean, if we're really worried about bird deaths, uh we we should be talking a lot more about cats and and birds flying into windows than than wind turbines.