Birds are dying by smashing into NYC skyscrapers in record numbers — here’s potentially why

NY Post ^ | 11/13/2024 | Katherine Donlevy

[ChicagoConservative27]

Birds are dying in record numbers this autumn by flying full-speed into Big Apple buildings, lured to their deaths by glassy skyscrapers — with the sleek Battery Park City corridor among the city’s biggest death traps.

There are almost 1,000 known cases of migratory birds obliviously smashing headfirst into the mirage-like reflective buildings since August — a whopping 53% increase from last year’s strike toll.

But experts warn the vast majority of bird strikes go uncounted — as unusually high winds and low clouds this year had the migrating flocks flying faster and at lower altitudes than normal.

“Fall of this year has been really hard,” Dr. Dustin Partridge, NYC Bird Alliance’s director of conservation and science, told The Post Tuesday.

[ChicagoConservative27]

Hasn't this been happening for a long time?

[HYPOCRACY]

Suicide birds who voted for Harris.

[montag813]

Would assume reflective material choices can also affect this

[VMI70]

Let me be the first:

Climate change!

[Billthedrill]

Better check to see what evidence they had against Hillary Clinton.

[know.your.why]

But its only liberal democrat migratory birds killing themselves. How interesting....

[ProtectOurFreedom]

My guess is the birds are dodging windmill blades and then run smack into the skyscrapers.

[ClearCase_guy]

This is what happens when a country reaches peak racism.

[Sirius Lee]

“Fall of this year has been really hard,”

Fall is hard. Harder if you're stupid.

[mbrfl]

Dr. Dustin Partridge? The guy in charge of bird conservation is named Dustin Partridge? Lol.

[Slicksadick]

Cats kill up to 4.1 billion birds per year.

[jerod]

If it’s New York... This is likely Trump’s fault.

[ZOOKER]

The only humane, ecologically sound option is to raze the buildings to the ground.

[GaltAdonis]

The birds are fleeing jet engine turbines…

[Veto!]

I have two cats, one mostly indoor and the other outdoor. I keep them so well fed that they don’t need to kill birds. Except for sport, I suppose.

Come to think of it, I’ve seen fewer birds in the neighborhood than a few years ago.

[Da Coyote]

When I read, “...here’s potentially why.”, I was expecting the required daily dose of pseudo-science “dastardly climate change” propaganda. Drat, for the first time in billions and billions of years, I was wrong.

[T.B. Yoits]

I suspect it's due in part to fewer people in the buildings, thus less movement for birds to direct away from.

Empty floors, clear glass - thwack!

[TonyinLA]

Has anyone checked if the Earth’s core stopped rotating?

[BenLurkin]

[rktman]

When the winds pick up, there are flight failures. We used find hundreds of them at Kennedy Space Center around the vehicle assembly bldg when winds picked up.