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Saving the migrating birds
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So many migrating birds are killed when they fly into buildings in Toronto. Many are injured and with care they can survive. Teams of volunteers search around the deadliest buildings for birds in need of help.
http://metronews.ca/news/toronto/1356850...os-towers/

They are a dedicated group of people and because of them, many birds survive and can eventually continue their migration.
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Catherine

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#2
Interesting article. It is great that these people dedicate their time to helping birds. We have a bit of a problem at our house, too, which certainly isn't a tower block. The birds sometimes fly into our windows. They are normally stunned and recover, but a few unlucky ones haven't. The article mentions about hanging string from the window. We will certainly try it.
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I found a beautiful dead songthrush today, lying on the grass just in front of the summerhouse in the garden where I go to visit the cat every day. I couldn't think what had killed it. There was no evidence of an attack by the cat. It looked perfect and very healthy -just not alive.
I looked at the summerhouse window and saw a mark on the window which hadn't been there before. At the left a wing-shape, and in the middle, must have been where its head hit the glass.
It probably knew nothing after knocking itself out. But it's still a sad event.
That has never happened before. Nor against the house windows there. And I have been going there for 3 years.
Where I live, it's rare, but sometimes does happen.
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#4
I suppose ever since we invented glass it has been a danger for birds.
Toronto has tall sky scrappers that are giant reflective surfaces. The look like they are open spaces. At night, with the lights left on they are even worse. They cause so many bird deaths every year. It is a slaughter, but birds are small so no one notices.

http://www.ontarionature.org/protect/cam...ldings.php

When you add them all together it is not a small loss.
http://www.flap.org/faqs.php

There are groups working to change things.
You have to admire the volunteers that go out there and pick up the birds from the ground. They save lives directly.

I wish they could get the building owners to do something to make the buildings less dangerous. If nothing else we should change how we build now that we know there is a problem.

Personally I think they should spray paint the silhouette of a bird on the building for every dead bird they find. It would get the message across.
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Catherine

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