Evolution spent 200 million years inventing the 'don't eat me' stripe. Turbines just borrowed it.

Painted turbines can save millions of birds

Scientists at the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior tested whether warning color patterns found in nature — the bold stripes and spots snakes and poisonous frogs use to deter predators — could keep birds away from wind turbine blades. In video-game-style experiments, great tits saw different blade designs and hesitated longer and approached less often when warning patterns were painted on, with the bio-inspired design performing best. The team says copying nature's own safety signs could cut the millions of bird collisions turbines cause each year.

Source: Painted turbines can save millions of birds — Mongabay Conservation

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