[Tweeters] “Statue of Liberty Officers on Bedloe’s Island (now Liberty Island), picked up “1375 downy little dead bodies” in 1887, soon after Lady Liberty opened. One account reported: “The torch-bearing goddess ... does not trim her hat with humming-birds, nor adorn her robes with the bright plumage of feathered creatures. She is, nevertheless, an innocent cause of death to a great many birds, of all sizes and colors, and representing numerous species, without discrimination. The fatal instrument of decoy and destruction is the vast cluster of electric lights which she holds aloft in her right hand.”: The Surprisingly Long History of the Movement to Make Buildings Safer for Birds | Audubon”

[Dan Reiff]

Well that was an unexpected fact:


“Statue of Liberty 

Officers on Bedloe’s Island (now Liberty Island), picked up “1375 downy little dead bodies” in 1887, soon after Lady Liberty opened. One account reported: “The torch-bearing goddess ... does not trim her hat with humming-birds, nor adorn her robes with the bright plumage of feathered creatures. She is, nevertheless, an innocent cause of death to a great many birds, of all sizes and colors, and representing numerous species, without discrimination. The fatal instrument of decoy and destruction is the vast cluster of electric lights which she holds aloft in her right hand.”

https://www.audubon.org/news/surprisingly-long-history-movement-make-buildings-safer-birds

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