Featured in Yes, PV can – 10-2014

Singed birds and bad PR: Solar and wildlife issues

Wildlife: Solar scaremongers had reason to take flight earlier this year when images of fried birds at solar parks in the U.S. hit the headlines. But solar’s role in avian mortality is nothing to get in a flap about, as pv magazine discovered.
By
Christian Roselund

A photo of a small dead bird with its feathers melted away made the rounds on the internet in late August 2014, published by a wide variety of publications. This image, variations on the verb “incinerate,” and claims that the facility is killing as many as 28,000 birds annually have shaped the impression that many …

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