Can ILE stop the bird massacre?

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Little birds, dead or dying on the ground below windows, makes me sad. How would you warn birds away from windows they might fly into?

When I was like 8 a pheasant flew into the window behind the TV while I was watching 'Love American Style.' It was weird, I saw it swooping in at me and BAM! It broke the window and was an awful, traumatic mess.

― Hunter (Hunter), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 18:47 (twenty-two years ago)

I know of a couple in Coromandel who draped a huge net from the verandah around their house (about 1m out) to stop kereru flying into the windows.

― isadora (isadora), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 18:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Don't fuck with natural selection.

― NA (Nick A.), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 19:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Don't people use bird-shaped cutouts in windows? I think the idea is that a bird will recognize the shape of another bird (maybe a predator-type?) and avoid flying into it.

― jazz odysseus, Tuesday, 3 February 2004 19:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Love American Style!

― lawrence kansas (lawrence kansas), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 19:16 (twenty-two years ago)

The natural selection issue is actually mentioned in the article, the guy states something about the windows picking off the fit and unfit alike. We could put birds in fuzzy emo sweaters and prevent them from flying though.

― Hunter (Hunter), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 19:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Even better on the interstate. Nothing like cruising along with the windows down on a summer day on your way to go camping in the Red River Gorge with your dad when you're 12 years old and out of nowhere a fucking crow explodes all over the windshield.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 19:23 (twenty-two years ago)

I hadn't noticed the linked article before! The problem is larger than I thought.

― jazz odysseus, Tuesday, 3 February 2004 19:25 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.mercurynews.com/images/mercurynews/mercurynews/7699/59278965333.jpg

"The thousands of windmills that generate environmentally friendly energy on the hills and canyons on the edge of the Bay Area have proven to be ecologically harmful. Birds are killed by the thousands each year in the turbine blades, and on Monday a local environmental group filed suit to make the Altamont Pass windmills less deadly to winged wildlife..."

― andy, Tuesday, 3 February 2004 19:36 (twenty-two years ago)

a local environmental group = ol' Fred here

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 21:20 (twenty-two years ago)

two years pass...

Finally the government is taking action on this!

― Paul Eater (eater), Sunday, 4 June 2006 14:23 (nineteen years ago)

In one instance, critics say, a group of wealthy vacationers believe a proposed wind farm off the Cape Cod, Mass., coast would spoil the view of the ocean from their summer homes.

*goes on killing spree*

― helix aspersa (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 4 June 2006 14:29 (nineteen years ago)

ilx can help by scaring the birds away with over enthusiastic rowrrrs to the birds.

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 5 June 2006 04:50 (nineteen years ago)

help me Lord not to hate people so

― kingfish doesn't live here anymore (kingfish 2.0), Monday, 5 June 2006 05:14 (nineteen years ago)

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