Bats are not birds and other problems with Sovacool’s (2009) analysis of animal fatalities due to electricity generation

Abstract

Recently Sovacool(2009) set out to compare North American bird (avian) and, presumably bat(chiropteran) mortality resulting from three methods of electricity generation, an objective we applaud. However, we feel it is important to point out serious errors in biological fact, logic, and data selection in his paper.