most people don’t even realize how many
birds are being killed by windows almost
everybody you’ll meet will say yes I’ve
seen a bird hit a window almost all
those people think it’s unusual how many
birds have to hit windows for everybody
to have been around when one happened
they’re hitting all the time
we’ve created the tunneling because
we’re trying to develop a standard test
we’re testing primarily the patterns on
the glass and how well birds will avoid
them the birds that we use a catch from
the wild here in a box over the Bronx
River we’ve set up very fine Nets the
Flies and land in the net and then
they’ll bounce down into a little pocket
it’s all very soft and gentle it’s an
age-old way of catching birds that
weren’t authorities have been using to
study alive bird questions the birds
were looking at are the birds that are
moving through during migration
well we identify it we put the band on
and then we will release the bird into
the test chamber the birds see two
pieces of glass one of those pieces of
glass has a pattern the other is a plain
piece of glass that is invisible to the
birds what we’re asking them really is
if you want to get out of here which way
would you go
one-eighth and before the birds actually
reach the glass there’s a piece of very
fine netting stretched across the end of
the tunnel we have tested materials that
90% of birds will avoid if you put
vertical lines four inches apart most
birds won’t try to fly through there on
the other hand they can slip through a
four inch gap that’s horizontal so you
have to bring it down to two inches
we
setting up the tunnel turned out to be a
bit of a breakthrough there is now a
credit in the lead system the green
building rating system for reducing bird
collisions that is directly based on the
work that we’ve been doing it doesn’t
matter where on the scale of pragmatic
to idealistic you fall there are reasons
to protect bird our future our lives are
very dependent on having healthy bird
populations I would like to be able to
test pretty much any material that is
out there for commercial construction
because I know that the more options
there are the more architects will be
willing to use different kinds of
materials in a bird friendly design
birds are being killed by windows almost
everybody you’ll meet will say yes I’ve
seen a bird hit a window almost all
those people think it’s unusual how many
birds have to hit windows for everybody
to have been around when one happened
they’re hitting all the time
we’ve created the tunneling because
we’re trying to develop a standard test
we’re testing primarily the patterns on
the glass and how well birds will avoid
them the birds that we use a catch from
the wild here in a box over the Bronx
River we’ve set up very fine Nets the
Flies and land in the net and then
they’ll bounce down into a little pocket
it’s all very soft and gentle it’s an
age-old way of catching birds that
weren’t authorities have been using to
study alive bird questions the birds
were looking at are the birds that are
moving through during migration
well we identify it we put the band on
and then we will release the bird into
the test chamber the birds see two
pieces of glass one of those pieces of
glass has a pattern the other is a plain
piece of glass that is invisible to the
birds what we’re asking them really is
if you want to get out of here which way
would you go
one-eighth and before the birds actually
reach the glass there’s a piece of very
fine netting stretched across the end of
the tunnel we have tested materials that
90% of birds will avoid if you put
vertical lines four inches apart most
birds won’t try to fly through there on
the other hand they can slip through a
four inch gap that’s horizontal so you
have to bring it down to two inches
we
setting up the tunnel turned out to be a
bit of a breakthrough there is now a
credit in the lead system the green
building rating system for reducing bird
collisions that is directly based on the
work that we’ve been doing it doesn’t
matter where on the scale of pragmatic
to idealistic you fall there are reasons
to protect bird our future our lives are
very dependent on having healthy bird
populations I would like to be able to
test pretty much any material that is
out there for commercial construction
because I know that the more options
there are the more architects will be
willing to use different kinds of
materials in a bird friendly design
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