Re: Sibley on birds and windows

I would take a wild guess that more birds are killed by raptors and tall
buildings than by striking windows in houses. I remember back a few years
ago there was some ridiculous report that cats killed more than 3,000,000
wild birds in Minnesota in a one year period. Off topic, but I was in West
Virginia last week. Opening day for hunting Deer killed: 10, hunters
accidentally shot: 11 But they I saw plenty of road kill along the
Interstate because hunters were flushing they out of the woods. ( I have
nothing against hunting)...


<jerry_friedman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Nov 26, 8:16 am, jerry_fried...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
Have people seen this blog post by David Sibley on ways of keeping
birds from hitting windows? The promising possibility he's found is
marking a grid on the window with fluorescent yellow highlighter.

http://sibleyguides.blogspot.com/2007/11/simple-method-for-bird-proof...

More research is needed, though.

And maybe I should add that he says the best solution, for those who
want to spend the money, is something called the Bird Screen.

--
Jerry Friedman


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