This is Bird No.

Climate change poses a big threat to all life on Earth, and birds are no exception.

Gary George is the director of the Clean Energy Initiative for the National Audubon Society,

and he says that wind turbines are essential to meet our carbon reduction goals, but there

is a catch.

Turbines do kill birds, birds can fly into them.

Those blades are spinning really fast, but there are ways to avoid that, to minimize that.

Gary and his team at Audubon provide guidance on how to make wind farms safer for birds.

The first best way is to not put them in places where there's lots of birds.

For wind farms that are already built, new technologies that detect birds and temporarily

shut off turbines as they pass through could help protect big species such as eagles and

condors that are at high risk of collisions.

We're pushing it to be tested for whipping grains, for instance, and for other species

of large-bodied birds, and we hope at some point it'll even be able to detect smaller

bodied birds, so for us it's a very exciting technology.

So at this point, there's a lot of things that project developers can do to protect birds.

Learn more about how to make energy projects safer for birds on the Bringing Birds Back

Podcast.

Listen to your favorite podcast app, or at birdnote.org.

I'm Tanajie Hamilton.