Birds That Die From Solar Panels

Workers at a state of the art solar plant in the mojave desert have a name for birds that fly through the plant s concentrated sun rays streamers for the smoke plume from birds that ignite.

Birds that die from solar panels.

Billions of birds die annually from collisions with windows communication towers wind turbines and other human made objects. This is even a problem for solar panel facilities which see up to 138 000 bird deaths per year in the us from collisions with equipment. Bird scientist shawn smallwood testified that one large solar farm alone the ivanpah solar panel project in california likely kills 28 380 birds annually. One reason is that birds see a reflection of the sky in the object and think they re flying into an unobstructed path.