Number of birds killed by the BP oil spill: at least 2,188 and counting.
Number of birds killed by wind farms: 10,000-40,000 annually.
Number of birds killed by cars: 80 million annually.
Number of birds killed by cats: Hundreds of millions to 1 billion annually.
Don't worry there is some good news.
Number of birds killed by fisheries: tens to hundreds of thousands annually (fortunately for the birds, some of these fisheries are now shut down).
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Strange disaster math
Alex Tabarrok at Marginal Revolution:
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birds,
BP,
Deepwater Horizon,
environmental disaster,
offshore oil,
oil+gas
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