Wind turbines operating in harsh environments are prone to surface defects that compromise efficiency and safety. Traditional convolutional neural networks lack sufficient multi-scale feature representation, while Transformer-based methods suffer from excessive computational complexity. This study proposes HAMD-DETR, an end-to-end detection framework for wind turbine defect identification. The framework consists of three key components: an Adaptive Dynamic Multi-scale Perception Network (ADMPNet), a Hierarchical Dynamic Feature Pyramid Network (HDFPN), and a Dynamic Frequency-Domain Feature Encoder (DFDEncoder). Firstly, ADMPNet integrates multi-scale dynamic integration fusion and adaptive inception depthwise convolution for feature extraction. Then the HDFPN balances deep semantic and shallow detail features through pyramid adaptive context extraction and gradient refinement modules. At last, DFDEncoder enhances feature discrimination through frequency-domain transformation. Experiments on wind turbine datasets demonstrate that HAMD-DETR achieves 58.6% mAP50 and 31.7% mAP50-95, representing improvements of 3.1% and 2.1% over the baseline RT-DETR. The proposed method reduces computational complexity by 27.2% and parameters by 30% while achieving a 151.9 FPS inference speed. These results validate HAMD-DETR’s effectiveness for wind turbine defect detection and demonstrate its potential for intelligent operation and maintenance applications.