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(Atlanta Journal Constitution)   Environmentally friendly building draped in black cloth because birds kept crashing into it. "No species is safe--it's the wall of death." In related news, birds are really, really stupid   (ajc.com) divider line
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Julieahni
2007-11-24 4:39:01 PM  
Magnolia warblers, Swainson's thrushes, ovenbirds - no species was safe.

Haha. They're just making names up.
 
Afternoon_Delight
2007-11-24 6:35:05 PM  
Teh environmentalists are killing... teh birds.

/Just like with the wind farms
 
Sarcasm_stays_on
2007-11-24 6:35:23 PM  
Yikes!!! Don't say they're stupid.

Just came from the scary movie thread - have you seen "The Birds?"
 
Crosshair
2007-11-24 7:08:37 PM  
I get to clean the dead birds from under my parents picture window. My dad and I think it is funny. My mom hates it.
 
mab1823
2007-11-24 7:54:25 PM  
Julieahni: Magnolia warblers, Swainson's thrushes, ovenbirds - no species was safe.

Haha. They're just making names up.

I wish I didn't know that they weren't.
 
ZAZ [TotalFark]
2007-11-24 8:32:22 PM  
Warbler names are masterpieces of deception. The warblers named after states are named after states they don't live in. I saw a Palm Warbler in a generic very non-palmish New England deciduous tree. Ovenbirds do not live in ovens, especially when preheated to 350 degrees. And so on.
 
fourth.person.pov
2007-11-24 8:33:42 PM  
... Darwinism?
 
wal9000
2007-11-24 8:34:06 PM  
Mesh netting ≠ black cloth
 
MrEricSir
2007-11-24 8:45:16 PM  
What are birds?

We just don't know.
 
skunkmasher
2007-11-24 8:50:33 PM  
Kill them all. God shall know his own.
 
noazark [OhFark]
2007-11-24 9:08:40 PM  
A few years ago, I was working on the 8th floor of a building when I heard a loud "whap!" sound. My co-workers and I looked around, but nothing had fallen over or was otherwise amiss, so we shrugged and continued working.

A few hours later, the sunset revealed an oily imprint of a bird in the window ... it was so clear that you could make out the markings of individual feathers. The print was visible at sunset for weeks afterward.

/bird must've been doing at least sixty
 
rat_brain_flies_plane
2007-11-24 10:07:44 PM  
between 100 million and 1 billion birds die in the United States each year in collisions with glass.

That's like somewhere between 1 and 1 brazillion, right?
 
King Something [TotalFark]
2007-11-24 10:11:06 PM  
ZAZ: Ovenbirds do not live in ovens, especially when preheated to 350 degrees

That's because they're German.

/aisle
 
Mr_Smartypants
2007-11-24 10:14:53 PM  
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Gonna have to start doing this to cars too (clicky, no poppy).
 
drumsac
2007-11-24 10:24:12 PM  
There was an article in one of the NYC papers about this, maybe six months ago. Some glass building was getting smashed into constantly by migrating birds. The funny part was that pigeons had no problems at all. Home field advantage, I guess...
 
noazark [OhFark]
2007-11-24 10:50:28 PM  
Mr_Smartypants

That's exactly what the "bird mark" I described in my story above looked like! (only, on a building window instead of a vehicle) Uncanny...
 
Metaluna Mutant
2007-11-24 10:55:28 PM  
Ovenbirds? Are there Stuffingbirds? Could save me some time next thanksgiving.
 
birdmanesq
2007-11-24 11:06:58 PM  
Won't somebody think of the birds?!?

/And the birdmen?!?
 
wal9000
2007-11-24 11:07:21 PM  
noazark: Mr_Smartypants

That's exactly what the "bird mark" I described in my story above looked like! (only, on a building window instead of a vehicle) Uncanny...

It's caused a fine powder that owls have in their feathers to reduce noise while hunting.
 
gruntmints
2007-11-24 11:31:58 PM  
reminds me of this
oh the poor birdies!
 
Freecell
2007-11-25 12:36:03 AM  
True story: I have a big ass window in my living room. I once looked over at it just in time to see a crow smash into it. Couldn't stop laughing.
 
RoyBatty
2007-11-25 2:07:37 AM  
Some of the buildings at UC Berkeley have life sized decals of eagles and hawks on them to scare the birdies away.
 
Insult Comic Bishounen
2007-11-25 2:24:30 AM  
But what of the boobies, the woodcocks, and the titpeckers?
 
wildcardjack
2007-11-25 2:30:01 AM  
I've had a sparrow bounce off my sliding glass door, which looks really frosted because I have a layer of plastic on the inside to make an air pocket.

Making glass more visible isn't the solution. Birds are really stupid.
 
Rustem
2007-11-25 3:12:10 AM  
farkin' ovenbirds. farkIN' OVENBIRDS HAD IT COMING!
 
Phosphorus
2007-11-25 3:51:05 AM  
There is a blue jay that has a nest in a tree in my back yard. He is smarter than these birds, but not by much. He will come up to the windows and attack his reflection - but at least he knows where the glass is and stops for it.

/He will also come and dive bomb the windows when we are on the other side of them.
//He thinks the backyard is his, hehe.
///He frequently outruns a falcon that lives in the neighborhood too.
////I watch the birds too much methinks.
 
Hardy-r-r
2007-11-25 6:11:31 AM  
That whole LEED thing is a joke.

/LEED Certified
 
ArmoredFelix
2007-11-25 7:52:41 AM  
Nothing to see here, just darwin at work.

/seriously
 
Gosling
2007-11-25 8:31:17 AM  
Afternoon_Delight: Teh environmentalists are killing... teh birds.

/Just like with the wind farms

Actually, the birds are usually really good at avoiding the really slow blades. They'll go between, they'll go around, they'll go over. The birds that do slam into a blade... let's go with Darwinism. If they're too dumb to miss the farm entirely by going over or around, and not nimble enough to dodge slow-moving blades spaced relatively far apart, the flock is better off without them.
 
m0llusk
2007-11-25 9:07:44 AM  
Wow, architects discover that walls of glass kill birds. This has been a huge problem since the 1950s, so it only took a little over a half century. I guess you have to expect architects will be slaves to fashion above all else and totally out of touch with the impacts of what they do.

By the way, regarding wind farms killing birds, the one place where this is a huge issue is Altamont Pass which is one of the biggest Eagle nurseries on the planet. Young raptors who fly very fast from a young age are getting massacred by those things. The Darwinism remark doesn't match the body counts or impact on nature at all. Yet again, science scores zero and slaves to fashion reign supreme. Congrats!
 
moddest mouse
2007-11-25 1:08:15 PM  
Lamb of God is unimpressed.
 
birdmanesq
2007-11-25 3:06:59 PM  
moddest mouse: Lamb of God is unimpressed.

As are the Fruit of Islam.
 
AlgaeRancher [OhFark]
2007-11-26 3:35:48 PM  
they should tape a picture of a cat or other predator inside the glass, it would at least slow the birds down so they are more likely to notice the glass and not run into it.

/scarecrow?
 
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