Is Trump right that wind turbines are killing millions of birds?
Investigating the scale of bird deaths caused by wind turbines
US president Donald Trump is no fan of wind turbines, or windmills as he calls them.
Not only does he think they ruin the view from a golf course he owns in Scotland, but they are also deadly to birds.
鈥淚f you love birds, you鈥檇 never want to walk under a windmill,鈥� he said in 2019.
鈥淚t鈥檚 a very sad, sad sight. It鈥檚 like a cemetery. We put a little statue for the poor birds.鈥�
Earlier this year he posted on Truth Social saying that wind turbines were killing 鈥渕illions鈥� of birds.
But is that true? We speak to Dr Hannah Ritchie, Deputy Editor at Our World in Data and senior researcher at the University of Oxford, who has dug into the numbers on bird mortality and wind turbines.
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