Tiny songbird's collision with window leaves silent gap

Tiny songbird's collision with window leaves silent gap

Collisions with glass likely kill between 365 million and 1 billion birds annually in the United States.

‘Every lost life is a lost life’: University of Hong Kong scholar studies why campus is hotspot for bird-window collisions

In a laboratory of the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Hong Kong (HKU), Professor Juha Merilä put on a pair of rubber gloves, took some brown envelopes out of a refrigerator, and placed them on a tray. From each envelope, he carefully extracted a plastic bag, each containing a deceased bird. A bird flies towards a modern glass-panelled commercial building in Cheung Sha Wan in April 2025. Photo: Kyle Lam/HKFP.“This is a Swinhoe…

When the Birds Stop Singing

By Ben JealousWhere I grew up in California, on quiet mornings, you could hear the birds before anything else – finches, warblers, sparrows. They made the dawn feel like something alive. Those songs filled the sky with beauty and made the world feel whole.Now, those voices are going silent.A new study published last week in Science brought stunning news. Three out of every four of the 500 North American bird species in the study are in decline. …