COLLISION COURSE.

GEOGRAPHICAL discoveries; RETROFITTING of buildings; PEREGRINE falcon; LIGHT pollution; BIRD ecology

This week, Plant has come across 38 birds, from 18 different species, mostly dead, including a pair of severed bird heads - likely, says Plant, the result of a peregrine falcon attack. Strikes are documented and entered into FLAP's Global Bird Collision Mapper, a tracker showing bird collisions with buildings around the world. A dead black-throated blue warbler (above) is tagged at the Fatal Light Awareness Program Canada office in Toronto. opposite, from top: A lifeless warbler in downtown Toronto, an area known to have frequent bird strikes; Paloma Plant, FLAP Canada's co-founder, attends to an injured blue jay; Plant patrolling for dead and injured birds. [Extracted from the article]

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