From Marginal Revolution (again), Here are the number of birds killed annually by a variety of sources.
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.
There was also a fascinating if depressing recent New Yorker piece about the mass-killing of song birds in Europe, millions a year in Italy, Malta and Cyprus.
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