Lights out - New York City, USA. (1 Viewer)

[JPAC]

An estimated 90,000 birds each year are killed in the city as a result of striking glass-fronted buildings.

BBC link; http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-11141196

 

[etudiant]

Seems like a very low estimate, low by at least a factor of ten, imo.
In migration season, I often found dazed or dead birds on the sidewalks of the financial district while on the way to work in the morning.. Given the size of that district, I was seeing a minute fraction of the overall toll..