New Apple Store in Chicago kills birds

[Catherine]

The new Apple Store in Chicago may be a wonder of glass and light, but it is also a bird killer. Especially during migrating season large numbers of birds collide with the building every night.

https://www.google.ca/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&...t33e2UaGih


https://www.google.ca/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&...WBPHlWPObY

I am glad to hear that Apple is responding, but why are they not turning the lights out right away. Other fixes might take time, but the lights are obvious and doable. 
Actually the problem of bird strikes with buildings is well known so why didn't they build a bird safe building in the first place.
As I type I am very glad that I am not using an Apple product.


There is a building in Texas that proved to be very deadly to birds. They responded right away by shutting down lights and are now looking for other ways to help birds.

https://www.google.ca/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&...4Rqbp-ruA3


This is not a new problem. Toronto like many other cities is deadly to migrating birds. Work is being done to rescue the injured, document the deaths and convince buildings to turn out lights. Some are more responsive than others.

https://www.google.ca/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&...M38ntPlJQR


There are ways to build bird safe buildings.

https://www.google.ca/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&...7ebrf1CEVR


We have to do something. The bird populations cannot sustain such terrible losses without being put at risk for extinction. 
We should never have built such buildings, now that we have we must make them bird safe.

I would have expected better of Apple.

[Tobi]

(10-30-2017, 01:44 PM)Catherine Wrote: I would have expected better of Apple.

Yes, so would I.  I guess they are so huge and so "corporate" that they may even regard the birds crashing into their windows as collateral damage, and a bit of a nuisance...?
But we all have to be mindful of wild creatures, and whether what we are doing, what we are building, is damaging them and their species.


I don't own any Apple hardware as I always found it a bit too "quirky" for my taste (i.e. all sorts of counter-intuitive things, and operating issues etc) I have a friend who has an Apple laptop....
The only thing I have used them for, in a roundabout sort of way, is for music downloads of tunes I couldn't use any other way. I was pleased their costs were very fair for such things.

Turn some lights off Apple! You will save a lot of money by doing that anyway.

[Catherine]

All these companies would save money if they would turn off the lights at night. Cities don't have to so brightly lit. We could use a little darkness. 
It worries me that they are building even more towers that will be bird killers. Surely someone in the permit stage should be pointing out the problem.  Maybe we need to talk to the architects. They could include bird safety in their plans.

Apple is just one of many companies who have bird killing buildings. I wonder if they would be so careless about birds if Steve Jobs was still alive?

I never considered getting an Apple computer or phone. Everyone else around me is using Microsoft technology. It is easier to get help and share things if our technology is compatible.