On the BBC website today there is a piece about the city of Toronto and the way they are dealing with the problems of hundreds of deaths of their own beautiful and other migratory birds.
Birds see a reflection of a tree in a huge plate glass window for instance, they fly at speed towards it and bang.. one tiny fragile neck is broken.
So the city architects and planners are building bird friendly buildings, implementing new styles of architecture, using less glass, which has the benefit of keeping the buildings warmer and more energy efficient and by placing markings onto existing plate glass windows, this shows the birds that this is a 'non-fly through zone'!
The effect of these changes has been dramatic for the drop in avian deaths has been in the hundreds, which mean that more of these beautiful creatures will survive and breed.
Thank you Toronto..
GeeGee Parrot.
March 15th, 2018.
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