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Expert Says Glass Is Major Threat to Birds

Posted by michael on Sunday February 1, 2004 @08:08PM from the fly-slower dept.

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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Protect Birds by Anonymous Coward · 2004-02-01 20:17 · Score: -1, Troll

Give them somewhere to sit.
And of course by Zerth · 2004-02-01 20:18 · Score: -1, Troll

Any discussion of birds and their tendancy to suicide on windows needs a reference to the first recorded case of homosexual duck necrophilia
and killing birds is bad... why? by jerde · 2004-02-01 20:22 · Score: 0, Troll

I hate birds.

- Peter

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iPods Murder by Anonymous Coward · 2004-02-01 20:59 · Score: -1, Troll

iPods kill a lot of beaver.
Not the glass... by snakattak · 2004-02-02 00:36 · Score: 0, Troll

Its the WINDEX that people use! Lets be considerate people and not clean our windows, that way birds don't have to die meaninglessly.

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