Property News · August 3, 2016

Wildlife-friendly gardens may be more deadly to birds, report shows


New research shows that more birds die from collisions with windows in gardens that provide better bird habitat, reports ConservationCollisions with windows are a serious source of mortality for birds: hundreds of millions die from window strikes each year in the US alone. Most attention to this problem has focused on high-rise buildings, because each individual building of this type can kill a great many birds.But because there are so many residential dwellings, even a few collisions per home means that collectively these structures are responsible for a huge number of bird deaths. Yet researchers don’t know why one house has more collisions than another, let alone how to prevent them. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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