While we often talk about the danger of wind turbines to birds, few have ever actually seen these kinds of incidents because access to wind farms is limited. Here's a video from Crete that shows what happens when a vulture strays too close to a turbine's blades. Warning, the video is graphic and shows a bird dying.
By Garrison Frost
November 03, 2009
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