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wait, so if windows are so high. What about like, the rest of the building?
I think windows are that high because birds think they can go through them, they probably don't think they can go through buildings, but who knows?
i would assume so, but most sky scrapers are entirely glass, and those technically aren't windows from the outside. So do those count?
Though i guess they also have air patterns surrounding them that would make it difficult to bonk into.
Windows are transparent so birds think you can fly though them.
yeah, but given the shear amount of non window surface area a building has, i would assume it would also be pretty significant. Not to mention the immediately dazzled birds not knowing where they are immediately bonking into other shit.
Birds know to avoid regular walls, like how they avoid cliffs and whatnot. But not many windows in nature. Glass exterior overall fucks them up.
so i suppose one way windows would probably not be counted into that figure then.
Gotta love data collection.
Something that has not been noted yet is that glass is often reflective. If windows were always visibly transparent, birds could have a decent chance to notice who or what is behind them before impact. Unfortunately, the reflections are often of the sky and clouds, or maybe a fruit tree- as what happened to a poor Western Tanager at my house this morning. I have anti strike decals and haven't had an incident in years, so this caught me off guard and I have to address it.
Bird condition is unknown, as they flew off. Many birds succumb to internal injuries later, sadly.
ah yeah, true, reflective windows would be a potential issue in that regard.
Not sure if you're making a joke, but windows kill birds because they're transparent and birds fly into them not realizing it's there. The rest of the building doesn't really kill birds because they won't fly into it.
mostly musing on the clarification of what a window is, because not all windows are transparent, in fact, the majority of them, i would venture to argue, are not.
Skyscrapers are weird.