My grandparents lived near an estuary and had to put the dot stickers on their big, west-facing sliding glass doors to stop the high-speed waterfowl crashes that would happen every month or so. While I certainly understand it’s best for the ducks, one of my oldest memories is of hearing a BANG! And looking out the door to see a disoriented duck staggering around on the deck before shaking it off and flying away unsteadily.
I used to clean windows on big buildings. One time I was sent this new building that had just been put up in the span of about a year. They obviously didn’t give a shit about any birds because when I was on their 7 floor patio one day I counted about 20 dead birds.
Bird–window collisions (also known as bird strikes after the aviation term or as window strikes) are a problem in both low- and high-density areas worldwide. Birds strike glass because reflective or transparent glass is often invisible to them.[1] Previous research estimated that between 100 million and 1 billion birds are killed by collisions in the United States annually,[2] but a 2024 study on the survival rate of bird-building collision victims indicates that previous research was vastly underestimating the number of deaths caused by collisions, and in actuality well over 1 billion birds die from collisions in the United States every year.
My grandparents lived near an estuary and had to put the dot stickers on their big, west-facing sliding glass doors to stop the high-speed waterfowl crashes that would happen every month or so. While I certainly understand it’s best for the ducks, one of my oldest memories is of hearing a BANG! And looking out the door to see a disoriented duck staggering around on the deck before shaking it off and flying away unsteadily.
Many birds die afterwards by cerebral bleeding.
I used to clean windows on big buildings. One time I was sent this new building that had just been put up in the span of about a year. They obviously didn’t give a shit about any birds because when I was on their 7 floor patio one day I counted about 20 dead birds.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird–window_collisions
The ducks that were able to walk away were lucky, probably not flying at full speed yet. And they were still probably concussed afterwards.
Dad, were you flying home drunk again?
*takes a swig* Fucken’ Huumans!
You could always tell they were pissed off. Visibly confused. But definitely pissed too.
when they start leaving little presents on your doorstep, that’s how you know