True or false? “Wind turbines are dangerous for birds”

• To limit these impacts, The location of wind turbines plays a crucial role. Avoiding migration corridors such as Mediterranean, migration transit space between Africa and Europe, or the Natura 2000 areas, remains the best way to preserve our birds. In comparison, agricultural regions like Beauce or Hauts-de-France are less fatal.
• Technological solutions are under study. Radar and thermal cameras detection systems allow you to stop blades as volatile approaches. If these devices remain perfectible – because of its flight speed, a hawk must be detected at least 900 m away so that the wind turbine has time to slow down – they testify to a desire to adapt the sector.
• At sea, cohabitation Wind turbines with sea birds suffer from a lack of knowledge. Mortality is all the more difficult to quantify there since the carcasses of struck cormorants flow in the ocean. The National Council for Nature Protection, however, calls for reinforced vigilance. He estimates that the objective of 7,100 offshore wind turbines in France in 2050 seems “clearly incompatible with the survival of many species of sea birds. »»

Sources: National Council for Nature Protection, LPO, National Office for Hunting and Wildlife.