Posted on 10/07/2023 10:51:50 AM PDT by spirited irish
Our colleagues and friends in the Chicago, Illinois area have sad news about a major bird collision event that occurred last night and this morning, 4-5 October 2023. Reports from the area indicate that large numbers of birds died in collisions while major migration was occurring in the area (see the following checklist, as well as this one). Although details are still emerging, this event appears to be a combination of high intensity migration, adverse weather conditions for flying, and light and glass – a mix we know too well can be deadly.
Please note: we urge all businesses, building owners, and private residences, as well as operators of any illuminated structures, to heed lights out warnings for non-essential lights to be turned off during the migration season – this includes this evening in the Chicago and northern Illinois area, 5 October 2023. Additionally, birders and other concerned parties should be watchful for injured or trapped birds and request help from Chicago Bird Collision Monitors (or act safely if assistance is not available) to help save injured or trapped birds. And equally or more important, we urge all building and homeowners that have not already done so to employ bird friendly designs, whether it is in the glass you install or the treatments on your windows.
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Doesn’t anyone believe in good old Darwinian evolution anymore?
Only if they were paranoid and had their phones off.
Nor did I. We enjoy birds and keep year-round feeders up for the summer and cold weather birds.
Pity they’re not tracking the millions of birds killed every year by wind farms - where they got chopped up running into the blades - and solar farms, where they catch fire flying over them.
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True.
Meanwhile, you will be pleased to know that hundreds of towering whirling windmills just outside of Chicago caused no bird deaths. None at all.
Windows kill birds a million times more then windmills.
Even though up to 1 billion birds die each year by flying into windows, no one is brushing off the tens of thousands of turbine-related deaths every year.
A few years back, this bird kept landing on the phone wire and would attack its reflection in the house window across the street. For days on end.
I’ve never seen a ‘mass kill’ before.
Ban glass in Shitcago!
If not, windows need to be banned. Except on the mansions of wealthy Democrats, of course.
Won’t help as birds are ‘bird brains’.
SMACK!
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