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| BASILIO,LAY G.; MORENO,DANIELE J.; PIRATELLI,AUGUSTO J.. |
| Abstract Bird-window collisions are a major cause of bird mortality in the world; up to one billion birds die each year from collisions with glass panes in North America alone. However, relatively little attention had been given to this issue in the broad scientific literature, despite a recent increase in the number of papers. In this paper, the indexed literature on bird-window collisions was reviewed, specifically addressing the causal factors. The search retrieved 53 papers, mostly from North America. The factors linked to higher collision rates were large areas of continuous glass, the presence of nearby vegetation and feeders, bird migration, abundance, and behavior. Several factors were site-specific, preventing the global extrapolation of these... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Bird strikes; Bird-friendly buildings; Glass panes; Human-made structures; Urban birds. |
| Ano: 2020 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0001-37652020000100706 |
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| Brisque,Thaís; Campos-Silva,Lucas Andrei; Piratelli,Augusto João. |
| ABSTRACT Bird-window collisions are a dramatic cause of bird mortality globally. In Latin America, statistics are generally very scarce and/or inaccessible so the frequency of such incidents is still poorly understood. Nevertheless, civilians have applied preventive methods (e.g. adhesive bird-of-prey decals) sparsely but, to our knowledge, no study has evaluated their effectiveness in Brazil. Here, we estimated the mortality rate of bird-window collisions and tested the effectiveness of bird-of-prey decals at preventing such accidents. We undertook daily searches for bird carcasses, presumably resulting from window collisions, near all buildings on a university campus over seven months. Adhesive bird-of-prey decals were then applied to the two buildings... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Environmental impact; Fauna depreciation; Human-made environment; Neotropical; Preventive actions; Urban birds. |
| Ano: 2017 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1984-46702017000100310 |
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