Birds Killed by.....

During the campaign, Trump railed about windmills, emphasizing the birds killed by them and the supposed hypocrisy of liberals for wanting windmills despite this problem.,   At his rallies, he often expressed it as "killing all the birds".  So I did a little research.  All these numbers are bird mortality for the US

0.2-.35M     Windmills
1-2M         Oil and wastewater pits
15M          Hunters
60M          Collisions with cars
72M          Pesticides
174M         Collisions with power lines
400-900M  Collisions with windows
1400-3700M     Cats
So windows are at least 1000 times more dangerous to birds than are windmills.  And cats.   We need to ban cats and windows!!!! 

Sheesh!

Of course we should do everything reasonable to minimize all of these, but the idea that it would be a reason to not build windmills is foolish.  The oil business kills far more.

The  real reason he doesn't like windmills is because some would be built in the view of one of his resorts and he thinks that would reduce the price he could charge (maybe, maybe not),   but more importantly, he is beholden to fossil fuel interests and wants to drag his feet as much as possible on the inevitable switch to renewables.

He also claimed that all of the wind turbines come from Germany and Japan.  Uh, no, there are several wind turbine manufacturers in the US, and GE owns wind companies in several other countries.
China  10
South Korea 6
Germany 4
US  3
Japan  3
Spain  2
Denmark 1.  but it's by far the biggest

There were 88,000 wind power workers in the US at the start of 2016, growing at about 20% per year.  The American Wind Energy Association estimates that there will be 380,000 wind power jobs in the US by 2030.  The vast majority of these are in rural areas or semi-rural areas.  There were 63,000 US jobs in the coal business in 2015 and this number can only decline.  Virtually all coal mining is done in strip mines and mountaintop removal, which substitutes big machines for workers, and there is nothing Trump or anyone else can do to change this.

addenda 10 Mar 2017
Predatory birds like eagles are particularly susceptible to poisoning because many of them are also scavengers.  A particularly serious problem is birds and animals killed by hunters and abandoned, either because the hunter only took enough to make a trophy, or because they couldn't find their victim. Eagles and other scavengers eat the decaying flesh, including the lead shot.  Lead is a slow neurotoxin, so they don't die immediately, but their thinking and coordination is damaged, and they often crash into things that they'd have otherwise been able to avoid.

Eagles and other raptors are also particularly susceptible to being hit by windmills, because their hunting methods may put them at the same height as the moving blades.