Blasting white noise could stop birds slamming into buildings

Skyscrapers, communication towers and wind turbines are a regular sight in our daily lives, but if you’re a bird, they can be a dangerous obstacle course.

Key points:

Flying into buildings and other human-built structures are a leading cause of death in birds worldwide
A US-based team projected sound waves from communication towers as a warning signal to migrating birds
The approach reduced bird activity around the towers by up to 16 per cent

Each year, billions of birds fly straight into these towering structures, making it one of the leading causes of human-related bird deaths worldwide.

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Tau.Neutrino said:

Blasting white noise could stop birds slamming into buildings

surely there’s a better solution we can learn from pandemic management this past year

just let the birds fucking slam into buildings, and eventually they’ll learn not to or they’ll die, and there won’t be any more slamming

SCIENCE said:

Tau.Neutrino said:

Blasting white noise could stop birds slamming into buildings

surely there’s a better solution we can learn from pandemic management this past year

just let the birds fucking slam into buildings, and eventually they’ll learn not to or they’ll die, and there won’t be any more slamming

flock immunity?

SCIENCE said:

Tau.Neutrino said:

Blasting white noise could stop birds slamming into buildings

surely there’s a better solution we can learn from pandemic management this past year

just let the birds fucking slam into buildings, and eventually they’ll learn not to or they’ll die, and there won’t be any more slamming

Most birds look down when they are flying.

SCIENCE said:

Tau.Neutrino said:

Blasting white noise could stop birds slamming into buildings

surely there’s a better solution we can learn from pandemic management this past year

just let the birds fucking slam into buildings, and eventually they’ll learn not to or they’ll die, and there won’t be any more slamming

agreed

Tau.Neutrino said:

SCIENCE said:

Tau.Neutrino said:

Blasting white noise could stop birds slamming into buildings

surely there’s a better solution we can learn from pandemic management this past year

just let the birds fucking slam into buildings, and eventually they’ll learn not to or they’ll die, and there won’t be any more slamming

Most birds look down when they are flying.

You are thinking about birds of prey. They look down. I don’t think the flocking birds do.

Tau.Neutrino said:

SCIENCE said:

Tau.Neutrino said:

Blasting white noise could stop birds slamming into buildings

surely there’s a better solution we can learn from pandemic management this past year

just let the birds fucking slam into buildings, and eventually they’ll learn not to or they’ll die, and there won’t be any more slamming

Most birds look down when they are flying.

so do they also fly into trees? mountains? each other?

Bird fly into mirrors too… which I get that they think there is more space, but you’d think they’d try to at least avoid the other bird.

buffy said:

Tau.Neutrino said:

SCIENCE said:

surely there’s a better solution we can learn from pandemic management this past year

just let the birds fucking slam into buildings, and eventually they’ll learn not to or they’ll die, and there won’t be any more slamming

Most birds look down when they are flying.

You are thinking about birds of prey. They look down. I don’t think the flocking birds do.

Birds Flying Into Windows? Truths About Birds & Glass Collisions from ABC Experts

I think it effects most species of birds, but there is very little data on numbers of each bird species.

Tau.Neutrino said:

Blasting white noise could stop birds slamming into buildings

Skyscrapers, communication towers and wind turbines are a regular sight in our daily lives, but if you’re a bird, they can be a dangerous obstacle course.

Key points:

Flying into buildings and other human-built structures are a leading cause of death in birds worldwide
A US-based team projected sound waves from communication towers as a warning signal to migrating birds
The approach reduced bird activity around the towers by up to 16 per cent

Each year, billions of birds fly straight into these towering structures, making it one of the leading causes of human-related bird deaths worldwide.

more…

Does it matter?

dv said:

Tau.Neutrino said:

Blasting white noise could stop birds slamming into buildings

Skyscrapers, communication towers and wind turbines are a regular sight in our daily lives, but if you’re a bird, they can be a dangerous obstacle course.

Key points:

Flying into buildings and other human-built structures are a leading cause of death in birds worldwide
A US-based team projected sound waves from communication towers as a warning signal to migrating birds
The approach reduced bird activity around the towers by up to 16 per cent

Each year, billions of birds fly straight into these towering structures, making it one of the leading causes of human-related bird deaths worldwide.

more…

Does it matter?

Would a billion birds each year contribute to mass extinction?

Tau.Neutrino said:

dv said:

Tau.Neutrino said:

Blasting white noise could stop birds slamming into buildings

Skyscrapers, communication towers and wind turbines are a regular sight in our daily lives, but if you’re a bird, they can be a dangerous obstacle course.

Key points:

Flying into buildings and other human-built structures are a leading cause of death in birds worldwide
A US-based team projected sound waves from communication towers as a warning signal to migrating birds
The approach reduced bird activity around the towers by up to 16 per cent

Each year, billions of birds fly straight into these towering structures, making it one of the leading causes of human-related bird deaths worldwide.

more…

Does it matter?

Would a billion birds each year contribute to mass extinction?

If figures were to take in the whole world then that figure would be higher.

Tau.Neutrino said:

dv said:

Tau.Neutrino said:

Blasting white noise could stop birds slamming into buildings

Skyscrapers, communication towers and wind turbines are a regular sight in our daily lives, but if you’re a bird, they can be a dangerous obstacle course.

Key points:

Flying into buildings and other human-built structures are a leading cause of death in birds worldwide
A US-based team projected sound waves from communication towers as a warning signal to migrating birds
The approach reduced bird activity around the towers by up to 16 per cent

Each year, billions of birds fly straight into these towering structures, making it one of the leading causes of human-related bird deaths worldwide.

more…

Does it matter?

Would a billion birds each year contribute to mass extinction?

Billions? Bit of fantasy there.

Tau.Neutrino said:

dv said:

Tau.Neutrino said:

Blasting white noise could stop birds slamming into buildings

Skyscrapers, communication towers and wind turbines are a regular sight in our daily lives, but if you’re a bird, they can be a dangerous obstacle course.

Key points:

Flying into buildings and other human-built structures are a leading cause of death in birds worldwide
A US-based team projected sound waves from communication towers as a warning signal to migrating birds
The approach reduced bird activity around the towers by up to 16 per cent

Each year, billions of birds fly straight into these towering structures, making it one of the leading causes of human-related bird deaths worldwide.

more…

Does it matter?

Would a billion birds each year contribute to mass extinction?

I mean endangered birds don’t live around city areas either.

ChrispenEvan said:

SCIENCE said:

Tau.Neutrino said:

Blasting white noise could stop birds slamming into buildings

surely there’s a better solution we can learn from pandemic management this past year

just let the birds fucking slam into buildings, and eventually they’ll learn not to or they’ll die, and there won’t be any more slamming

flock immunity?

you know it’s not politically correct these days but when we play the straight man

Arts said:

Tau.Neutrino said:

SCIENCE said:

surely there’s a better solution we can learn from pandemic management this past year

just let the birds fucking slam into buildings, and eventually they’ll learn not to or they’ll die, and there won’t be any more slamming

Most birds look down when they are flying.

so do they also fly into trees? mountains? each other?

Bird fly into mirrors too… which I get that they think there is more space, but you’d think they’d try to at least avoid the other bird.

Probably do but then that other bird is trying to avoid them…

dv said:

Does it matter?

Depends on how desperate the birds get.

esselte said:

dv said:

Does it matter?

Depends on how desperate the birds get.

I mean why add the headgear? because of that I am triggered by this image.. it’s a shitty thing to post.

Arts said:

esselte said:

dv said:

Does it matter?

Depends on how desperate the birds get.

I mean why add the headgear? because of that I am triggered by this image.. it’s a shitty thing to post.

isn’t that just a bandage for the head injury sustained from running into high-rise

SCIENCE said:

Arts said:

esselte said:

Depends on how desperate the birds get.

I mean why add the headgear? because of that I am triggered by this image.. it’s a shitty thing to post.

isn’t that just a bandage for the head injury sustained from running into high-rise

hmmm. maybe I have the problem….

Arts said:

SCIENCE said:

Arts said:

I mean why add the headgear? because of that I am triggered by this image.. it’s a shitty thing to post.

isn’t that just a bandage for the head injury sustained from running into high-rise

hmmm. maybe I have the problem….

We must all see our own things. In my mind it was a sailor’s cap, because somewhere in my brain it says some country used pigeons to deliver explosives. Might have been seals…

Arts said:

SCIENCE said:

Arts said:

I mean why add the headgear? because of that I am triggered by this image.. it’s a shitty thing to post.

isn’t that just a bandage for the head injury sustained from running into high-rise

hmmm. maybe I have the problem….

I saw the same as you Arts. Pretty obvious.

Arts said:

esselte said:

dv said:

Does it matter?

Depends on how desperate the birds get.

I mean why add the headgear? because of that I am triggered by this image.. it’s a shitty thing to post.

I didn’t create the image, but I’m pretty sure the person that did was alluding to Islam when they added the headgear (despite others here saying it could be a bandage or sailors cap or whatever).

My intention in posting it was to draw parallels to the attacks on the WTC in 2001 committed by Islamist Extremists who infamously flew in to tall buildings as do the birds being discussed here. The suggestion is, in reply to DV’s question of “does it matter” that birds may become pissed off enough about all these buildings that they start fighting back, in which case, Yes, it does matter. Of course,what is really brought in to focus here is that birds are incapable of such horrific acts, so we are safe to ignore the difficulties that our activities introduce in to their lives.

Why are you triggered by me making a joke which compares birds to psychotic murderous religious extremists? Are you offended on behalf of the birds or the murderers?

ChrispenEvan said:

Arts said:

SCIENCE said:

isn’t that just a bandage for the head injury sustained from running into high-rise

hmmm. maybe I have the problem….

I saw the same as you Arts. Pretty obvious.

What no you can’t be serious, we’re Compassionate Liberal Australia, we love explosive-carrying fanatics in headgear, as long as they’re getting oppressed somewhere in the Western New Frontier.

esselte said:

Of course,what is really brought in to focus here is that birds are incapable of such horrific acts, so we are safe to ignore the difficulties that our activities introduce in to their lives.

you’ve never seen the documentary The Birds?

esselte said:

Arts said:

esselte said:

Depends on how desperate the birds get.

I mean why add the headgear? because of that I am triggered by this image.. it’s a shitty thing to post.

I didn’t create the image, but I’m pretty sure the person that did was alluding to Islam when they added the headgear (despite others here saying it could be a bandage or sailors cap or whatever).

My intention in posting it was to draw parallels to the attacks on the WTC in 2001 committed by Islamist Extremists who infamously flew in to tall buildings as do the birds being discussed here. The suggestion is, in reply to DV’s question of “does it matter” that birds may become pissed off enough about all these buildings that they start fighting back, in which case, Yes, it does matter. Of course,what is really brought in to focus here is that birds are incapable of such horrific acts, so we are safe to ignore the difficulties that our activities introduce in to their lives.

Why are you triggered by me making a joke which compares birds to psychotic murderous religious extremists? Are you offended on behalf of the birds or the murderers?

I was thinking much the same thing along with overlooking all the other things we do and the problems we cause, yes it certainly does matter. Also disregarding the numbers we unnecessarily kill by simply saying ‘will it send them extinct.’ Such a dreadful way of looking at the plight, the suffering just so we can justify what we do.

ChrispenEvan said:

Arts said:

SCIENCE said:

isn’t that just a bandage for the head injury sustained from running into high-rise

hmmm. maybe I have the problem….

I saw the same as you Arts. Pretty obvious.

I have no idea what you and Arts saw. I saw a bandage.

Michael V said:

ChrispenEvan said:

Arts said:

hmmm. maybe I have the problem….

I saw the same as you Arts. Pretty obvious.

I have no idea what you and Arts saw. I saw a bandage.

what group strap explosives to themselves to blow things up? and what kind of headgear is usually associated with these groups?

ChrispenEvan said:

Michael V said:

ChrispenEvan said:

I saw the same as you Arts. Pretty obvious.

I have no idea what you and Arts saw. I saw a bandage.

what group strap explosives to themselves to blow things up? and what kind of headgear is usually associated with these groups?

bandages, lots of bandages!

ChrispenEvan said:

Michael V said:

ChrispenEvan said:

I saw the same as you Arts. Pretty obvious.

I have no idea what you and Arts saw. I saw a bandage.

what group strap explosives to themselves to blow things up? and what kind of headgear is usually associated with these groups?

soldiers, helmets

We have birds crash into the windows here a few times a year. None have died yet. It must be terribly uncomfortable for them. They ar usually stunned for a while.

I think the sound-blaster is a terrible idea. Expensive, consumes energy, resources and what-not.

Why, when there are so many relatively simple, low-tech solutions would some wacko propose this?

eg: these and many similar pages.

https://www.allaboutbirds.org/news/why-birds-hit-windows-and-how-you-can-help-prevent-it/

https://www.birdlife.org/worldwide/news/how-can-we-really-prevent-birds-flying-our-windows

https://www.google.com/search?q=how+to+stop+birds+crashing+into+windows&rlz=1C1CHBF_en-GBAU815AU815&oq=how+to+stop+birds+cra&aqs=chrome.0.0j69i57j0j0i22i30l3j0i390l3.9985j0j9&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

esselte said:

Arts said:

esselte said:

Depends on how desperate the birds get.

I mean why add the headgear? because of that I am triggered by this image.. it’s a shitty thing to post.

I didn’t create the image, but I’m pretty sure the person that did was alluding to Islam when they added the headgear (despite others here saying it could be a bandage or sailors cap or whatever).

My intention in posting it was to draw parallels to the attacks on the WTC in 2001 committed by Islamist Extremists who infamously flew in to tall buildings as do the birds being discussed here. The suggestion is, in reply to DV’s question of “does it matter” that birds may become pissed off enough about all these buildings that they start fighting back, in which case, Yes, it does matter. Of course,what is really brought in to focus here is that birds are incapable of such horrific acts, so we are safe to ignore the difficulties that our activities introduce in to their lives.

Why are you triggered by me making a joke which compares birds to psychotic murderous religious extremists? Are you offended on behalf of the birds or the murderers?

I’m offended for the birds.

Michael V said:

I think the sound-blaster is a terrible idea. Expensive, consumes energy, resources and what-not.

Why, when there are so many relatively simple, low-tech solutions would some wacko propose this?

Dunno but we have some shit to sell you, dig it up out of the ground, burn it, wind turbines kill birds all the time and sunlight will destroy the power grid but burning this stuff won’t do either¡

Michael V said:

ChrispenEvan said:

Arts said:

hmmm. maybe I have the problem….

I saw the same as you Arts. Pretty obvious.

I have no idea what you and Arts saw. I saw a bandage.

I knew I read it somewhere. This is probably not what I had read before, but….

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2004/may/21/artsandhumanities.military

buffy said:

Michael V said:

ChrispenEvan said:

I saw the same as you Arts. Pretty obvious.

I have no idea what you and Arts saw. I saw a bandage.

I knew I read it somewhere. This is probably not what I had read before, but….

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2004/may/21/artsandhumanities.military

Military officials considered sending flocks of homing pigeons armed with biological warfare agents such as anthrax against enemy targets, a secret report for British intelligence chiefs said.

told you if they were smarter they would have used bats

SCIENCE said:

buffy said:

Michael V said:

I have no idea what you and Arts saw. I saw a bandage.

I knew I read it somewhere. This is probably not what I had read before, but….

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2004/may/21/artsandhumanities.military

Military officials considered sending flocks of homing pigeons armed with biological warfare agents such as anthrax against enemy targets, a secret report for British intelligence chiefs said.

told you if they were smarter they would have used bats

LOL

> Each year, billions of birds fly straight into these towering structures

Thousands, not billions. There’s a factor of 1,000,000 difference.