Melissa McDonald shares her expertise on bird vs window collisions in a recent presentation. Did you know 269 million birds die every year in Canada due to human-related causes?
Woman, Watching is the biography of Louise de Kiriline Lawrence, whom some have called Canada’s Rachel Carson.For eight years she got up at the crack of dawn to patrol a downtown area of Toronto with a butterfly net.
Since we have a couple of bird feeders located outside our dining room window, sometimes excited finches hit the glass. It’s a horrible sound. Nine times out of 10, the birds flit away. Once in a while they need to rest a bit, but very occasionally there’s a fatality.It has been estimated that 269 million birds die every year in Canada due to human-related causes. Of that, more than 95 per cent is due to predation by cats and collisions with structures, including houses .
McDonald explained that sticking vinyl film dots on windows to increase their visibility to birds is likely the best help. Stores, like Lee Valley, sell tapes and rope to add to the exterior of big panes of glass. The award-winning guidelines provided strategies and options for making new and existing buildings less of a threat to migratory birds. The focus was on the two critical issues — making glass less dangerous to birds and mitigating light pollution.
The number is closer to 50 per cent in Nova Scotia and she noted that the loss is likely to continue. Woman, Watching is the biography of Louise de Kiriline Lawrence, whom some have called Canada’s Rachel Carson. - Contributed
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