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Birds are dying by smashing into NYC skyscrapers in record numbers — here’s potentially why
NY Post ^
| 11/13/2024
| Katherine Donlevy
Posted on 11/13/2024 2:06:14 PM PST by 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.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
TOPICS: Local News; Pets/Animals; Reference; Society
KEYWORDS: birds; dying; ecoterrorism; ecoterrorists; globalwarminghoax; greennewdeal; katherinedonlevy; newyorkpost; nyc; skyscapers
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Hasn't this been happening for a long time?
To: ChicagoConservative27
Suicide birds who voted for Harris.
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posted on
11/13/2024 2:07:05 PM PST
by
HYPOCRACY
(Democracy is dead. Long live the Republic!)
To: ChicagoConservative27
Would assume reflective material choices can also affect this
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posted on
11/13/2024 2:07:12 PM PST
by
montag813
To: ChicagoConservative27
Let me be the first:
Climate change!
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posted on
11/13/2024 2:08:13 PM PST
by
VMI70
(My Goal in Life is to be the Kind of Person My Dog Thinks I Am)
To: ChicagoConservative27
Better check to see what evidence they had against Hillary Clinton.
To: ChicagoConservative27
But its only liberal democrat migratory birds killing themselves. How interesting....
To: ChicagoConservative27
My guess is the birds are dodging windmill blades and then run smack into the skyscrapers.
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posted on
11/13/2024 2:10:23 PM PST
by
ProtectOurFreedom
(“President Trump sells out Madison Square Garden -- Kamala sells out America”)
To: ChicagoConservative27
This is what happens when a country reaches peak racism.
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posted on
11/13/2024 2:11:06 PM PST
by
ClearCase_guy
(My decisions about people are based almost entirely on skin color. I learned this from Democrats.)
To: ChicagoConservative27
“Fall of this year has been really hard,”Fall is hard. Harder if you're stupid.
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posted on
11/13/2024 2:11:15 PM PST
by
Sirius Lee
(Trump/Vance 2024 or GFY)
To: ChicagoConservative27
Dr. Dustin Partridge? The guy in charge of bird conservation is named Dustin Partridge? Lol.
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posted on
11/13/2024 2:14:14 PM PST
by
mbrfl
To: ChicagoConservative27
Cats kill up to 4.1 billion birds per year.
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posted on
11/13/2024 2:14:29 PM PST
by
Slicksadick
(We accept the love we think we deserve.)
To: ChicagoConservative27
If it’s New York... This is likely Trump’s fault.
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posted on
11/13/2024 2:15:33 PM PST
by
jerod
(Nazis were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
To: ChicagoConservative27
The only humane, ecologically sound option is to raze the buildings to the ground.
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posted on
11/13/2024 2:16:47 PM PST
by
ZOOKER
To: ProtectOurFreedom
The birds are fleeing jet engine turbines…
To: Slicksadick
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.
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posted on
11/13/2024 2:19:11 PM PST
by
Veto!
(Kamalala Sucks Rocks)
To: ChicagoConservative27
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.
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posted on
11/13/2024 2:20:57 PM PST
by
Da Coyote
(H)
To: ChicagoConservative27
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!
To: HYPOCRACY
Has anyone checked if the Earth’s core stopped rotating?
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posted on
11/13/2024 2:26:54 PM PST
by
TonyinLA
(I have insufficient information to formulate a reasoned opinion said no lefty ever.)
To: ChicagoConservative27
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posted on
11/13/2024 2:28:32 PM PST
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
To: ChicagoConservative27
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.
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posted on
11/13/2024 2:30:46 PM PST
by
rktman
(Destroy America from within ? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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