This Mojave Desert solar plant kills 6,000 birds a year. Here's why that won't change any time soon.
Federal biologists say about 6,000 birds die from collisions or immolation annually while chasing flying insects around the facility’s three 40-story towers, which catch sunlight from five square miles of garage-door-size mirrors to drive the plant’s power-producing turbines.
http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-solar-bird-deaths-20160831-snap-story.html