{"id":409193,"date":"2025-10-20T09:40:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T07:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=409193"},"modified":"2025-10-20T09:40:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T07:40:15","slug":"avian-mortality-industrial-wind-in-ecological-trouble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=409193","title":{"rendered":"Avian Mortality: Industrial Wind in Ecological Trouble"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" data-attachment-id=\"409198\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=409198\" 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https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/AQOZ83JAtkC4Gl_e2h7J2CM0LhtsXn3wu5kmOPyfKftWxALoeBe3Ge0-aLR_CGlwZJNPGpmQhGHp6ZUPuLFhz10SbzmihL1GS6s4G5NBH_CgELzNt9TXYSMvRdfPHoB2ps3MZx9Zv6VA0eVhznMv7ndpqmV5Bg.jpeg?resize=550%2C550&amp;ssl=1 550w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.masterresource.org\/cuisinarts-of-the-air\/avian-mortality-wind-power-ecological-trouble\/\">Master Resource<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>By Sherri Lange<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"embed-twitter\"><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Wind projects are known to kill eagles, and climate extremists in the Biden admin still greenlit scores of these projects. <br> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Interior?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Interior<\/a> is enforcing the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act to ensure that our national bird is not sacrificed for unreliable wind facilities! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MFh25QneKw\">pic.twitter.com\/MFh25QneKw<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Secretary Doug Burgum (@SecretaryBurgum) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SecretaryBurgum\/status\/1952501870393786822?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 4, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWind projects are known to kill eagles, and climate extremists in the Biden admin still greenlit scores of these projects.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Interior\">@Interior<\/a>&nbsp;is enforcing the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act to ensure that our national bird is not sacrificed for unreliable wind facilities!\u201d ( \u2013 Interior Secretary Doug Burgum,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/x.com\/SecretaryBurgum\/status\/1952501870393786822\">X<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The U.S. Secretary of the Interior, Doug Burgum,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SecretaryBurgum\/status\/1952501870393786822\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">posted a memorandum<\/a>&nbsp;back in August calling on the agency to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/subscriber.politicopro.com\/article\/2025\/08\/interior-memo-targets-wind-projects-over-risk-to-eagles-00494093\">ensure compliance with the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act<\/a>, \u201cto ensure that our national bird is not sacrificed for unreliable wind facilities!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"723\" height=\"904\" data-attachment-id=\"409195\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=409195\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-410.png?fit=1157%2C1446&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1157,1446\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"image\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-410.png?fit=723%2C904&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-410.png?resize=723%2C904&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"A memorandum from the U.S. Department of the Interior discussing compliance with the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act, dated August 4, 2025, outlining actions related to wind energy projects and eagle protection.\" class=\"wp-image-409195\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-410.png?resize=819%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 819w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-410.png?resize=240%2C300&amp;ssl=1 240w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-410.png?resize=768%2C960&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-410.png?w=1157&amp;ssl=1 1157w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is a long overdue threat to major wind projects that have been living a lie. After all, it was the Los Angeles director of the Sierra Club who coined the term \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.masterresource.org\/environmental-issues-windpower\/dear-carl-pope-what-about-cuisinarts-of-the-air\/\">Cuisinarts of the Air<\/a>\u201d to capture the bird-chopping nature of industrial blades to the most treasured\/protected birds of prey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The \u201cavian mortality\u201d problem has&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.masterresource.org\/?s=avian+mortality\">a long history<\/a>. May the new initiative finally (!) get to the bottom of things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Government Neglect<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Burgum\/DOI&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SecretaryBurgum\/status\/1952501870393786822\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">memorandum<\/a>&nbsp;is significant given the failure of the Fish and Wildlife Service to act on the documented killing of Golden and Bald Eagles by industrial wind. The dodge of estimating electrocutions from power poles as a \u201cmitigation\u201d strategy in this area (see&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/heartland.org\/about-us\/who-we-are\/david-wojick-ph-d\/\">David Wojick\u2019s<\/a>&nbsp;analysis, below) is unacceptable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.na-paw.org\/\">North American Platform Against Windpower<\/a>&nbsp;(NA-PAW) keenly awaits the new DOI priority. It is&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/abs\/pii\/S000632071400305X\">well known<\/a>&nbsp;that the ability to \u201cmitigate\u201d eagle deaths include a lack of suitable and rigorous testing; incomplete implementation; limited technology; ignored interacting factors; site specific requirements; lack of collaboration.&nbsp; Add: developer-led counting and methodology; use of less bird occupied testing sites; natural flow of natural processes where scavenging replaces\/negates counting; massive level obfuscation including reference points to cats and cars and windows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The actual numbers of kills are completely unknown. ABC (American Bird Conservancy) estimates some years ago (2021 article), 880 bats and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/abcbirds.org\/blog21\/wind-turbine-mortality\/\">573,000 birds dead.<\/a>&nbsp;Actual numbers, again years ago, referencing the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/kythira-windturbines.com\/en\/birds-and-bats\/\">Spanish Ornithological Society<\/a>&nbsp;numbers, a valid coordinate to the USA, is between 13 and 31 million annually.&nbsp;Then add electrocution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a 2014&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/journals.plos.org\/plosone\/article?id=10.1371\/journal.pone.0101565\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">study<\/a>, researchers estimated that 25.5 million birds are killed each year due to collisions with powerlines, and another 5.6 million are killed by electrocutions. Therefore, powerlines built exclusively to connect new wind facilities to the existing energy grid result in additional bird mortalities that should be factored in to the total toll in birds associated with wind energy development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfact.org\/2025\/06\/29\/cfact-report-feds-fail-to-offset-wind-turbine-eagle-kills\/\">David Wojick of CFACT<\/a>&nbsp;(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cfact.org\/\">Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow<\/a>) has penned several succinct assessments of the problem. \u201cFederal regulators concluded that the golden eagle population cannot survive increased kills from human activity,\u201d he noted, \u201cand also determined that wind turbines substantially increase eagle deaths.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The feds then offered a solution only a bureaucrat could love: Don\u2019t protect the eagles from turbine strikes, but \u201coffset\u201d their deaths by reducing electrocutions from power poles. Government then underestimated the number of power poles that would need to be made \u201csafe\u201d by a factor of as much as 241 and failed to save any meaningful number of eagles.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfact.org\/2025\/06\/29\/cfact-report-feds-fail-to-offset-wind-turbine-eagle-kills\/\">See link<\/a>&nbsp;for full report.&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfact.org\/2025\/06\/29\/cfact-report-feds-fail-to-offset-wind-turbine-eagle-kills\/\">See here<\/a>&nbsp;for executive summary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Time for Action<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">NA-PAW expresses the hope that Secretary Burgum\u2019s request to FWS is diligently applied, that no new wind factory permits are allowed; and retroactive closures of non-compliant wind factories are administered post haste.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Non-compliant yardsticks must be rejected. After-the-fact counts of dead birds and bats (in this case protected species, Golden and Bald Eagles) is not nearly enough. The corollary idea that reducing related power pole deaths can in some way \u201cmitigate\u201d wind turbine deaths is not credible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>NOTE<\/strong>: Mr. Wojick has not had a reply from his numerous emails to FWS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>CONTACTS:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Sherri Lange<\/strong>, CEO North American Platform Against Wind Power, Great Lakes Wind Truth; Vice President Canada, Save the Eagles International\u201d Advisory Board Member, All About Energy<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.na-paw.org\/\">www.na-paw.org<\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.greatlakeswindtruth.org\/\">www.greatlakeswindtruth.org<\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.allaboutenergy.org\/\">www.allaboutenergy.org<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>David Wojick<\/strong>&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:dwojick@craigellachie.us\"><strong>dwojick@craigellachie.us<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">David Wojick, Ph.D. is an independent policy analyst and senior advisor to CFACT. As a civil engineer with a Ph.D. in logic and analytic philosophy of science, he brings a unique perspective to complex policy issues. He specializes in science and technology intensive issues, especially in energy and environment. As a cognitive scientist he also does basic research on the structure and dynamics of complex issues and reasoning. This research informs his policy analyses. He has written hundreds of analytical articles. Many recent examples can be found at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfact.org\/author\/dwojick\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.cfact.org\/author\/dwojick\/<\/a> Often working as a consultant on understanding complex issues, Dr. Wojick\u2019s numerous clients have included think tanks, trade associations, businesses and government agencies. Examples range from CFACT to the Chief of Naval Research and the Energy Department\u2019s O\ufb03ce of Science. He has served on the faculty of Carnegie Mellon University and the sta\ufb00 of the Naval Research Laboratory. 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