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To be fair that is all glass buildings everywhere compared to a single place. Not quite a fair comparison.
by spicyusername 2y ago
To be fair that is all glass buildings everywhere compared to a single place.
Not quite a fair comparison.
- Retric 2y agoDivide by the 111 million buildings in the US of which 90% are single family homes. So it’s what ~1,000x as bad as the average structure but we’re talking about something several times the size of the average single family home. Plop down a housing development on those same 3,500 acres and it’s likely to kill far more birds.
- smogcutter 2y ago> Plop down a housing development on those same 3,500 acres and it’s likely to kill far more birds. Do you actually believe that? It seems obvious that single family homes don’t kill birds en masse. Plop down 3500 acres of glass office towers and we’ll talk.
- Retric 2y agoI’ve personally witnessed many birds die flying into windows in a detached single family homes. Multiply that by ~3000 homes and 6k per year would be a massive underestimate IMO. It’s uncommon with small windows, but a glass sliding door or big picture window regularly gets a thump. Some get back up, but many don’t. I do live in an area with a lot of birds so that may be a major factor.