deadbeef Posted January 18, 2015 Share Posted January 18, 2015 I'm familiar with a mirrored glass building that gets hit by many birds. A duck once hit it and fell dead then became another duck's mating partner. Perhaps there is a lesson here that could be of educational value to young players... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kelly the Dog Posted January 18, 2015 Share Posted January 18, 2015 The problem really isn't all the dozens of birds flying into the glass. The problem is the thousands of birds hiding around the corners or across the street and then cracking up when the moron birds face plant into the glass. There will be all kinds of DC Tombirds, smacking themselves in the forehead, going... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GG Posted January 18, 2015 Share Posted January 18, 2015 And how big a problem is "birds flying in to glass?" How many birds is this stadium expected to kill? The thing's just outside downtown Minneapolis...full of glass-clad buildings. Remind me how much of a birdpocalypse buildings like that casue? Probably much less than your run of the mill windmill. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC Tom Posted January 18, 2015 Share Posted January 18, 2015 Glass buildings are the second largest killer of songbirds (domestic cats are #1) in the midwest migration songbird population. Its a bigger deal than most smart phone types would ever imagine. Brown-headed cowbirds are another huge problem to the songbird population whereby they remove the songbird eggs and replace them with their own. Cowbirds are hedge-row birds but now with all the farmland there are no deep woods and the songbirds breed in the hedge rows where the cowbirds are. Yup, learn more about the world around you. Life is more than meaningless football and smart phones. Experimentation with different colored lights is under way in hopes the birds will see and respond positively. Basically bug lites...but only for birds. Yeah, I read the same study. Buildings are the second largest killer of birds behind cats. But that includes all buildings, including residential. On an individual basis, the average glass-clad office building kills...maybe 20-30 birds a year. So we're talking about saving birds from flying in to windows at a cost on the order of a million dollars a bird? Yeah, that sounds sane. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dave mcbride Posted January 18, 2015 Share Posted January 18, 2015 And how big a problem is "birds flying in to glass?" How many birds is this stadium expected to kill? The thing's just outside downtown Minneapolis...full of glass-clad buildings. Remind me how much of a birdpocalypse buildings like that casue?Every year in nyc, there's a big die off stemming from the return of migrating birds who crash into windows at night. It's a freaking avian holocaust out there! http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/23/nyregion/23birds.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC Tom Posted January 18, 2015 Share Posted January 18, 2015 Every year in nyc, there's a big die off stemming from the return of migrating birds who crash into windows at night. It's a freaking avian holocaust out there! http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/23/nyregion/23birds.html Since 1997, Audubon Society volunteers have collected more than 4,000 dead birds of 100 different species at just a handful of buildings in Midtown and Lower Manhattan. About fifty a building. Like I said, we're talking about a cost on the order of a million a bird. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boyst Posted January 18, 2015 Share Posted January 18, 2015 would someone think of the birds? please!? get that cruel arse tom outta here. INTOLERANCE. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Hansen Forever Posted January 18, 2015 Share Posted January 18, 2015 It's not like the other tall glass buildings in town aren't doing the same thing. The IDS tower for example has regular bird hits, but the pinkos won't declare it to changed out, only the violent, masculine football stadium owners need to be careful. Jesus. We need to spend 25-60 million to protect birds from themselves? Man I try to be sympathetic in many cases but this is ridiculous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg F Posted January 18, 2015 Share Posted January 18, 2015 Probably much less than your run of the mill windmill. That of course is the solution. Just put up some windmills to surround the stadium and intercept the incoming birds. Everybody knows that birds getting killed by windmills is a-okay because they are green. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marv's Neighbor Posted January 18, 2015 Share Posted January 18, 2015 Just cover it with a big screen roof. Keeps the birds AND the Minnesota mosquitos out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrooklynBills Posted January 18, 2015 Share Posted January 18, 2015 Non issue with an open air stadium. Yeah. New Bills stadium will not have a roof. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eball Posted January 18, 2015 Share Posted January 18, 2015 I hope whatever "trends" that have gone into this "thing" and the anus-dome in Atlanta are done by the time the new Bills stadium is designed You mean the Sphincter Dome? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ICanSleepWhenI'mDead Posted January 18, 2015 Share Posted January 18, 2015 Glass buildings are the second largest killer of songbirds (domestic cats are #1) in the midwest migration songbird population. Its a bigger deal than most smart phone types would ever imagine. Brown-headed cowbirds are another huge problem to the songbird population whereby they remove the songbird eggs and replace them with their own. Cowbirds are hedge-row birds but now with all the farmland there are no deep woods and the songbirds breed in the hedge rows where the cowbirds are. Yup, learn more about the world around you. Life is more than meaningless football and smart phones. Experimentation with different colored lights is under way in hopes the birds will see and respond positively. Basically bug lites...but only for birds. Well assuming that's all true, the solution is pretty simple. For every kamikaze songbird that splats against the stadium, the following year you put a domestic cat wearing a video cam in each hedgerow infested with killer cowbirds. You pay one guy to monitor the video feeds, and when the cats have killed just the right number of brown-headed cowbirds the guy stops watching the video feed and herds all the cats back into the stadium. But you need to start with an accurate count of the number of kamikaze songbirds that splat into the stadium each year. So you have a fan promotion - - any fan who brings a dead kamikaze songbird to a home game gets to pick out a free kitten from the cat quarters. Net impact of the new stadium on the songbird population is zero, you create a video monitoring job to help the local economy, brown-headed cowbirds get what's coming to them, and fans get free kittens! Everybody wins (except the cowbirds). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RuntheDamnBall Posted January 18, 2015 Share Posted January 18, 2015 So there are enough financial issues in this country all over and now we need to drop that much cash to save birds lives? Sorry that's just ridiculous and idiotic to me.hey, why not disrupt an ecosystem for a freaking football stadium? Also, hope you like more bugs. Because birds eat them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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