Well, since there are alternatives that achieve the same, but invisible to the human eye, i still think its an annoying choice.

How much windex do you guys go through?

Birds probably have better eyesight than you or I

Also note how low wind turbines actually are on that list. The oil industry lives to harp on the number of birds killed by wind turbines, but you never hear them about the much larger number of birds killed by vehicles.

Still worth reducing every number on that list of course, but keep some perspective.

birds have a 4th color cone receptor. so thier eye sight is more advanced than ours.

Someone should figure out how to paint cats so that birds can avoid them.

That's blowing my mind that birds, masters of the sky - a realm to which they can easily escape to where few can follow, are such a frequent snack for cats, who under usual circumstances don't often fly. Cats are like ninjas.

The graph's message is clear: immediately dismantle all wind turbines and ramp up clean coal!

/s

Is the cat issue specific to the Americas or something? Because here in Europe we've had cats for thousands of years and in Africa they existed long before that even, so I don't see how some pets getting out sometimes is any worse than the feral cats that existed long ago

Cats get the most common types of birds, though, while windows can get entire flocks of less common birds during migration. For susceptible migratory birds, windows are a much higher population level threat.

AN OUTSIDE CAT IS A STRAY YOU FEED. THATS NOT YOUR FUCKING CAT. Thats all.

Many birds die afterwards by cerebral bleeding.

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.

I was 20 minutes late to work once. Boss gave me a freebie when I told her that I was playing crossing guard for a family of ducks crossing the road.