Thousands of birds could be saved from being killed by wind farms by painting one blade on each turbine black, a study suggests.
Eagles and other soaring birds of prey are particularly vulnerable to wind farms and they benefit most from making the blades more visible.
Trials on Smola, an island off the coast of Norway, found that bird deaths fell by 72 per cent after a blade on each of four turbines was painted black, compared with four neighbouring turbines that remained all white.
Kestrels, snipe and golden plover were among the species to benefit but the biggest reduction was in deaths of white-tailed eagles. https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/birds-saved-if-one-wind-turbine-blade-is-black-9fjzwvfqj
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