Birds Getting Killed By Solar Panels

One leading theory suggests birds mistake the glare from solar panels for the surface of a lake and swoop in for a landing with.

Birds getting killed by solar panels.

With a concentraing solar plant birds can be harmed when they fly too close to the path of the reflected solar energy. 15 september 2016 a rare and unusual type of solar power plant that concentrates sunlight in california is accidentally killing up to 6 000 birds every year with staff reporting that the birds keep flying into its concentrated beams of sunlight and spontaneously bursting into flames. If they do they can basically get cooked by the high energy rays. Resident birds such as nighthawks and migrant species including yellow warblers have been feasting on caterpillars grasshoppers dragonflies beetles bees and wasps though far more bugs get.

Workers at a state of the art solar plant in the mojave desert have a name for birds that fly through the plant s concentrated sun rays streamers for the smoke plume from birds that ignite. Bird scientist shawn smallwood testified that one large solar farm alone the ivanpah solar panel project in california likely kills 28 380 birds annually. The link between solar facilities and bird deaths is still unclear. Meanwhile we ve built more wind turbines.

The low estimate for bird deaths from solar power comes from the solar company brightsource which was recently accused by the center for biological diversity of operating a solar farm that kills. Birds can be killed when they smash into the facility s solar panels the investigation concluded.