Scientists reveal the staggering number of bat deaths at wind turbines
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Scientists reveal the staggering number of bat deaths at wind turbines
Bat populations across the United States face numerous threats, and one of the biggest may be the number of collisions with wind turbines. According to the most comprehensive study of the problem to date, published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, more than 18 million bats may have died at wind energy facilities between 1981 and 2024.
Scope and severity of bat fatalities at US wind energy facilities
Abstract: Wind turbines are a major source of bat fatalities in the United States, yet the magnitude and species-specific patterns of these fatalities have remained poorly quantified because monitoring has been site-specific, unstandardized, and not designed for landscape-level synthesis. In the most comprehensive analysis to date, we synthesized 499 postconstruction monitoring reports and developed a multispecies Bayesian hierarchical framework…
The media reported on the results of a study in which the researchers found a frightening number of bats killed by wind turbines in the USA. The study by Charles J. Labuzzetta, Ashton M. Wiens, Bradley J. Udell and a number of co-authors was published on October 26, 2026, [...]
Wind turbines in the USA could have killed around 18.7 million bats between 1981 and 2024. This results in a model calculation of 499 investigation reports, which for the first time merges the losses of ten species over several decades nationwide. Particularly affected are migratory tree bats, while the actual consequences for their stocks are not yet reliable. Fort Collins (U.S.A.). The [...] The post US wind turbines have probably killed 18.7 …
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