New York Times: A City of Glass Towers, and a Hazard for Migratory Birds
Adriana Palmer, an Audubon bird safety manager, bagging remains.
Photo Credit: Benjamin Norman
Most bird-watching enthusiasts spend their days looking up in the hope of seeing the flash of a yellow warbler or a scarlet tanager. Deborah A. Laurel looks at the ground.
Ms. Laurel is a volunteer for New York City Audubon, and during the weeks of the fall migration, she is part of a dawn patrol that scans the sidewalks and plazas of Manhattan, searching for victims of the city’s forest of glass towers. The other morning she spied the bodies of six that had collided with the plate-glass ferry terminal at the World Financial Center.
Posted by WILDNEWJERSEY at 9/21/2011 10:00 AM 
Categories: Birds
Tags: migratory birds birds new york audubon nyc Migration
Categories: Birds
Tags: migratory birds birds new york audubon nyc Migration
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