Across the world, wind power is growing fast—but not fast enough. To meet climate goals and reach carbon neutrality, the United Nations says global wind energy must triple in the next ten years.

President Donald Trump has faulted the wind industry for harming birds, but government data shows other industries kill more of them. Birds die in numbers and in ways that can boggle the imagination.

Wind turbines may seem innocuous enough, but they have the potential to reshape the air birds fly through. In a recent Scientific Reports paper, researchers found that a gliding bird’s lift-to-drag ...