976 million dead birds a year.

Recently I heard a report stating that from 5-50 million birds die each year due to the existence of cell phone towers. Apparently at night the birds circle the red light on the top of the towers thinking it's a star. They repeatedly circle the light thinking they are following it to their destination and finally just get exhausted and drop to their death.

At first glance I thought, well we should do something about this. Something has got to be done. Then I looked into it a little further and found that this is not a significant amount of bird deaths at all. Compared to things like cars, high tension wires and of course windows Communication towers are the least lethal of the list of man made things to fly into.

An estimated 97 to 976 million birds die each year from flying into windows. Yep, you heard me right. Flying into windows… So if you feel guilty when you are using your cell phone next time do something good for the birds. If you put a screen on the exterior of your home windows you just might save a birds life :)

Here is a little video that I thought might add to this article :)


I got the chart above from sibleyguides.com