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[–] 52 points 3 days ago (6 children)

My grandparents lived near an estuary and had to put the dot stickers on their big, west-facing sliding glass doors to stop the high-speed waterfowl crashes that would happen every month or so. While I certainly understand it’s best for the ducks, one of my oldest memories is of hearing a BANG! And looking out the door to see a disoriented duck staggering around on the deck before shaking it off and flying away unsteadily.

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  • [–] 72 points 3 days ago (1 child)

    Many birds die afterwards by cerebral bleeding.

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  • I used to clean windows on big buildings. One time I was sent this new building that had just been put up in the span of about a year. They obviously didn't give a shit about any birds because when I was on their 7 floor patio one day I counted about 20 dead birds.

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  • [–] 28 points 3 days ago

    Bird–window collisions (also known as bird strikes after the aviation term or as window strikes) are a problem in both low- and high-density areas worldwide. Birds strike glass because reflective or transparent glass is often invisible to them.[1] Previous research estimated that between 100 million and 1 billion birds are killed by collisions in the United States annually,[2] but a 2024 study on the survival rate of bird-building collision victims indicates that previous research was vastly underestimating the number of deaths caused by collisions, and in actuality well over 1 billion birds die from collisions in the United States every year.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird%E2%80%93window_collisions

    The ducks that were able to walk away were lucky, probably not flying at full speed yet. And they were still probably concussed afterwards.

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  • [–] 16 points 3 days ago (2 children)

    Dad, were you flying home drunk again?
    *takes a swig* Fucken' Huumans!

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