Conservation groups are urging ministers to reject plans for an offshore wind farm which the developer predicts will kill tens of thousands of seabirds.

Five charities, led by RSPB Scotland, have written to the first minister to argue that approving Berwick Bank in the Firth of Forth would undermine efforts to protect nature.

SSE says it has already amended its designs to minimise any potential risks to Scottish seabirds.

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    1 month ago

    I thought that there was no evidence that wind turbines were statistically likely to be hit by a bird.

    I’ll have to look it up, but it was generally understood that birds were able to avoid objects, even predictable moving ones.