<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><p style="font-size: 16px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Quicksand, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">Tweeters,</p><p style="font-size: 16px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Quicksand, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">This research helps answer the question that many of us have asked: when a bird collides with a window, is stunned but then later flies away, will it be OK?.</p><p style="font-size: 16px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Quicksand, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">Dan Reiff</p><p style="font-size: 16px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Quicksand, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"> “To estimate how many birds die from window collisions after surviving the initial impact, the team studied data from eight states regarding 3,100 avian collision cases over the years 2016 to 2021. They found that most birds that were discovered and treated still died due to injuries they sustained in the collision. More specifically, they found that the death rate was 60%—mainly due to brain injuries.</p><p style="font-size: 16px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Quicksand, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">They note that it was not uncommon for a bird to wake up after a collision and fly away, seemingly unharmed. Unfortunately, many such birds can experience the same types of symptoms that happen to people in <a href="https://phys.org/tags/car+accidents/" rel="tag" class="textTag" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-decoration: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-color: rgb(0, 101, 255); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">car accidents</a>, such as brain swelling, which almost always leads to <a href="https://phys.org/tags/death/" rel="tag" class="textTag" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-decoration: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-color: rgb(0, 101, 255); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">death</a> in birds. Taking such cases into account increases the total number of bird deaths due to window collisions to approximately 1 billion a year in the U.S.“</p>https://phys.org/news/2024-08-billion-birds-die-year-due.html</div><br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfSignature"><div dir="ltr">Sent from my iPhone</div></body></html>