F.L.A.P.

[Catherine]

The real problem is the big high-rises. They are all glass and they often leave lights on all night. Birds don't see the glass they see an opening to fly through. It is worse for the birds flying at night. They get lost in a down town full of light. Toronto is on a major migratory bird routs and so many of our beautiful birds die.

It is sad when one or two birds hit a window. When it is thousands of birds them it is a tragedy and a massacre. We need to turn out the lights at night and we need to make the glass visible to birds. The buildings are ugly anyhow. Sometimes the glare is hard to take on a hot summer day. I don't know who thought up the idea of tall glass towers, but the death of a million birds is on his head.