🦅 Hidden toll: The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) maintains a secretive database on eagle and bird fatalities caused by wind turbines, with public access heavily restricted. This lack of transparency shields the wind industry from scrutiny and conceals the true impact on avian populations.

Wind farms contribute only a small fraction of U.S. electricity (5.55% in 2016) while causing the deaths of over 573,000 birds annually. Expanding wind power to meet the 2030 target could quadruple the number of turbines, exacerbating habitat destruction and avian mortality.

Each turbine requires:

3+ acres of cleared land (often on ridgelines).

212-foot towers with 116-foot blades (creating a 1.5-acre kill zone per turbine).

"Wind energy is not ‘green’ if it’s killing hundreds of thousands of birds," said the late Dr. Michael Hutchins, former National Coordinator of the American Bird Conservancy’s Bird Smart Wind Energy Campaign.