I usually get annoyed by people who get all soap-boxy about wind turbines and birds. These same people never seem to care about the birds (and all the other animals) who are killed by fossil fuel power generation.

https://climate.mit.edu/ask-mit/do-wind-turbines-kill-birds

Do wind turbines kill birds?
Yes - but only a fraction as many as are killed by house cats, buildings, or even the fossil fuel operations that wind farms replace.

That said, it appears they have a path forward for this particular wind farm:

What makes that almost feasible is a recent leap in tracking. Researchers have been fitting orange-bellied parrots with tiny radio transmitters and seeding their flyway with receiver stations, slowly learning the exact timing and route of a journey that was a near mystery a few years ago.

The more precisely engineers know when the parrots are crossing, the more surgically they can pause the machines, the way some birds have begun to tolerate turbines on other sites.

Hopefully they'll get the best of both worlds from this farm.

So the story is not over, and it is not a foregone funeral. A parrot the weight of a few coins has already done the impossible once, crossing an ocean and coming back from the brink. Whether it can also thread its way through a field of turning blades is the question now being written, one migration, and one paused turbine, at a time.

🤞 💚

The fact that they've already got a solution that allows the bird to stay safe and the renewable energy to go ahead is so great. I just hope their ability to detect the migrating birds and successfully stop the turbines to protect them actually works.