Posted on 02/28/2017 1:46:25 PM PST by DUMBGRUNT
Jim Sharpsteen started around sunrise. He was among half-dozen or so bird-loving volunteers who, over an 11-week span beginning last August, made the walk of shame around U.S. Bank Stadium.
Their mission was to confirm the worst: To see if the stadium, with its 200,000 square feet of clear and reflective glass, is so indistinguishable to birds that the creatures crash into it like something out of an Alfred Hitchcock movie.
Welcome to the avian killing fields.
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Or open a mini fried chicken operation?
I have no clue where that is.
Oh, come on! All birds do is fly around and poop on newly washed cars.
It would really suck to be a bird and avoid all the “bird chopper” wind generators and then break your neck running into a glass pane at a professional ball game!
(Insert Arizona Cardinals, Baltimore Ravens, Philadelphia Eagles, Atlanta Falcons Joke here)
It’s where the Vikings play football in Minneapolis.
Is that right. Well, I stopped caring about pro football with Kapernick. Im out. I don’t even care any more.
500 birds a year. 200,000 square feet of glass. Okay, that’s one bird for every 400 square feet of glass per year. I have 13 windows in my house which total about 200 square feet of glass. I’ve had three birds fly into my windows in the two years I’ve lived there. So, I have 1.5 birds per 200 square feet of glass per year. My house has a higher kill rate than the stadium does per square foot of glass.
All solid upright objects are bird killing machines. Even trees.
Larger objects kill more birds than smaller ones.
“It’s where the Vikings play football in Minneapolis.”
Simple solution. Switch the birds with illegal alien Somalians. If they chew enough khat they won’t feel a thing when they smash into the windows.
I can see that.
Just a thought. What if a crazy person flys a large drone into the glass wall to protest the constant deaths of the birds?! And what if the drone strike happens during half-time at the Super Bowl?! It is a glass house. It invites the deaths of birds. What if a drone tossed a rock.
“What if a drone tossed a rock.”
I see a host in the sun.
2 observations,
Does this same principle apply to skyscrapers? Most tall buildings have lots of glass. Some have an “off color”, a light green I have seen, maybe that would help.
Those who counted the birds must have done this in the summertime, most Hummingbirds, all in fact, fly south for the winter.
So, the inspection stated by Audabon was not done recently.
I bought a house a couple years ago with glass all around the back deck. Birds constantly fly into it. At least once a month, I’m having to deal with a dead bird on my back deck.
Once month you have to clean up a dead bird? Man your life is tough, I don’t know how you do it.
In Alabama anyone with a hunting license can shoot a dozen dove a day for at least 30 days every winter. (OK we just call it winter, it was 80 today.) I don’t think the stadium is making much of an impact.
I have a snow shovel by the back door.
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