Every year, it’s estimated that a million birds die of window strikes in Toronto. It’s a very rough calculation, based on the fact that there are 940,000 structures in the city, most of them have at least one glass window, and each window has at least one fatal strike per year.
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Yet most city dwellers are unaware of the window strike problem, because gulls, rodents and other urban scavengers, as well as cats and dogs, very efficiently dispose of the dead and injured birds before we see them. Don’t miss “Deadly Flight” this Saturday on 16×9.
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