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  (Source: CleanTechnica) Annual death toll expected to rise
recent study in Klickitat County, Washington shows that active
wind farms in Washington and Oregon kill more than 6,500 birds
and 3,000 bats annually.   Biologist Orah Zamora works for West,
Inc., an ecological field study company, monitors the Windy
Flats project, one of the largest wind farms in the United
States. Zamora looks for dead birds and bats that have been
severed by the spinning blades of the surrounding wind turbines
in order to conduct survey's to observe how wind-power
development is affecting birds.   "It's like a crime scene, and
you try to figure out what happened," said Zamora. "Sometimes
it's really obvious because you can see a slice mark."  These
surveys are financed by the wind industry and are mainly
concerned with birds like eagles, hawks, and other raptors.
Klickitat County is especially a concern because the area has an
abundance of prey for these larger birds