dead birds

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"'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...'"

acutally, windows and other glass panes have been killing birds for a long time now. up until now, the common solution was to paint silhouttes of whatever predator of the birds that were dying of were. generally, it tends to be the really stupid birds to fly into tinted or frosted glass. so if you ever see windows w/ silhouttes of birds on them, that's why they're there. if the silhoutte is of the right bird, there should be no more deaths.