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Research and data from multiple agencies confirm that wind turbines are responsible for a small fraction of human-caused bird mortality. While estimates for bird deaths from wind turbines in the U.S. range from 140,000 to 1.17 million annually [5, 6, 14], these figures are dwarfed by other human-related causes. For example, power lines kill between 12 and 64 million birds each year 1, and communication towers cause approximately 7 million fatalities annually 13. The most significant man-made threat is collisions with buildings and windows, which are estimated to kill between 373 million and 1 billion birds every year [6, 10]. Additionally, experts note that wind power is a relatively minor source of mortality compared to broader threats like climate change, which endangers two-thirds of North American bird species 19. Scientific consensus indicates that while wind turbines do pose a risk to specific species like eagles [11, 16], they do not constitute the primary human cause of bird deaths [2, 3, 15].