Hello All,

Building Kills are a real issue that is killing 100s of millions of birds a
year needlessly. See article URL below.

When I worked downtown near Union Station in the Hall of the States in the
early 90s some days in the Fall I would come to work to find several dead
warblers and other species at the bottom of the building (almost EVERY DAY!
for a few weeks)..

I was so upset I went and talked to building management but they were not
able to do anything about it. The entire building had that reflective class
which made it aesthetically pleasing but a death trap to migrants.

In homes and some buildings you use a falcon silhouette that you commonly
see but I do not know of any organizations that are trying to encourage
prevention on a larger scale with skyscrapers?

I assume there are eco friendly architects that know about this. They ones
that do not do anything probably consider the fatalities analogous to road
kill and a shame that cannot be prevented.

Does any one have any thoughts or solutions?

Here is an article about it.

"Plate glass blamed for billion bird deaths a year"

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4134773/



If you can prevent "window kill or Building kill" at your house or office,
do it!
Warping a famous line "Only you can prevent window kills."

Thanks for your input and listening.

Rob in DC


>From: Jenny Mcclintock <>
>Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding <>
>To: 
>Subject: Re: [MDOSPREY] Sad bird morning
>Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 19:55:19 +0000
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>Oh no!  I can see how that would happen since the Hyatt is entirely made up
>of reflective glass, which would be quite confusing to the poor things!!
>Now I HATE that Hyatt building (and all others like it)!!!
>
>Thanks for the insight Bob.
>
>Jenny
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> >    Window kills are not uncommon in downtown Baltimore.