Posted on 10/23/2020 12:00:03 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Cats, glass windows and vehicles: These pose the biggest threats to birds in the United States. But President Donald Trump is continuing to falsely claim that wind turbines are to blame for the deaths of the nation's birds.
During Thursday night's final presidential debate between the president and former Vice President Joe Biden, Mr. Trump reiterated his stance against wind energy with a peculiar claim: It "kills all the birds."
"I know more about wind than you do," Mr. Trump told Biden when moderator Kristen Welker turned to the topic of climate change. "It's extremely expensive. Kills all the birds. It's very intermittent. Got a lot of problems."
According to a recent study, North America has lost more than a quarter of its bird population since 1970, a possible sign of an ecological crisis. And while wind turbines are responsible for some bird deaths, they are nowhere near the biggest threat to bird populations in the nation.
According to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, cats are the number one threat to birds, responsible for approximately 2.4 billion bird deaths each year. Collisions with building glass are the next deadliest threat, killing about 599 million birds, followed by collisions with vehicles, which cause about 214.5 million bird deaths.
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Imagine that you are so eat up with hatred for a president that you would write some tripe like this.
Cats never killed birds before 1970.
I called this exact article last night!
Shouldn’t be too hard for Trump to find photos of dead bird piles under windmills and tweet them.
It’s official. Democrats hate your cat!
The writer wants to kill kittens.
Fact-checking “kills all the birds”?
Unbelievable.
Someone actually wrote this.
Windmills kill big birds. Cranes, eagles, large hawks and owls are killed by Windmills. Cats and windows kill little birds. But the two Kestrels in my back yard kill about 4 birds a day.
My cat has yet to bag a Bald Eagle.
Even the plentiful Hawks seem more interested in her than her in them.
My cat dropped a dead bird on me when I was asleep once: “Look what I can do.” Imagine waking up to a headless bird on your chest.
My cat has yet to bag a Bald Eagle.
Even the plentiful Hawks seem more interested in her than her in them.
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exactly.
cats should be indoor pets anywayy
Fact Check! Fact Check! ... Cats and windows, oh my!
Cats and birds won’t be filling up your landfills when all those blades need replacing...
This is such a tired and absurd wind industry talking point! Name me the last time you saw a cat take out a golden/bald eagle, condor, falcon, Bicknell’s Thrush, whooping crane, passerine, loon, osprey or any of the important species beyond the common variety robin, sparrow, or pigeon. Turbines kill birds - period! Turbines are also the #1 or #2 sources of bat mortality depending on where the turbine is sited.
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