Expert Says Glass Is Major Threat to Birds

dlkf writes "According this AP article, 'Glass is ubiquitous and it's indiscriminate, killing the fit and the unfit... estimates (are) that collisions with glass kill up to 1 billion birds a year in the United States alone.' First wind turbines and now glass. What will they come up with next..."

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Re:What of it

[kawika]

Cats? What about other birds? I live on the edge of a park and there is a red-tailed hawk that I am convinced is taking advantage of the glass on our building. Every week or two I will here the plonk of a bird hitting the window. Twice I have looked out and seen that hawk swoop down and grab the stunned bird.

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[hal9000]

"[Ornithologist Daniel Klem] estimates that only habitat destruction kills more birds [than flying into glass]."

Err... other than the bird slaughtering industry I presume? Eight billion chickens and a quarter billion turkeys are slaughtered annually by the poultry industry in the US.

Source: 2003 poultry stats from the US Dept of Agriculture
(page 5)