Birds Killed Over Solar Panel Fields

The link between solar facilities and bird deaths is still unclear.

Birds killed over solar panel fields.

Meanwhile we ve built more wind turbines. One leading theory suggests birds mistake the glare from solar panels for the surface of a lake and swoop in for a landing with. Fish and wildlife service. Heat emanating from the ivanpah solar electric generating system the world s largest solar farm of its kind has allegedly killed and injured dozens of birds and other wildlife.

But there s hardly any science examining how many birds deaths are caused solar. Federal biologists say about 6 000 birds die from collisions or immolation annually while chasing flying insects around the facility s three 40 story towers which catch sunlight from five square. 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. Birds can be killed when they smash into the facility s solar panels the investigation concluded.

Yes birds have died at solar photovoltaic projects some of them from crashing into panels or other infrastructure. This results in birds colliding with the surface of the panels. According to the audubon society these birds deaths are related to large solar photovoltaic installations in the desert which to waterfowl can appear to look like bodies of water due to the reflectivity of the panels. Another problem with large solar farms is that birds sometimes mistake the glossy blue expanse of solar panels for bodies of water and try to land on them.

The other solar farms analyzed by the investigators were of the newfangled trough and solar power.