Reply #2: For years I've heard claims that

[SheilaT]

wind farms kill thousands of birds. I've never seen any proof of that, no pictures of piles of dead birds, no studies about declining bird populations in the vicinity of wind farms. I'm sure birds do fly into all sorts of tall structures on occasion. Heck, I once saw a bird foolishly fly into the middle of rush hour traffic traveling at about 70 mph on a busy freeway and be neatly cut in half by a car in front of me. All I could think of was, "That's survival of the fittest in action".