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Flights of Passage: a book review

10,000 Birds

There are 59 million mature Blackpolls, which sounds good until the authors note that their population declined by 92 percent between 1970 and 2014: the math alone seems unbelievable. ” In other words, wind turbines don’t harm birds just by smashing them to smithereens — they harm birds by merely existing.

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