{"id":2143,"date":"2024-11-26T07:00:04","date_gmt":"2024-11-26T12:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/?p=2143"},"modified":"2025-02-24T15:31:51","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T20:31:51","slug":"cities-struggle-with-glass-buildings-and-bird-deaths-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/cities-struggle-with-glass-buildings-and-bird-deaths-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"Cities struggle with glass buildings and bird deaths problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cats are the number one killer of birds, but not far behind in second place, and gaining fast, are glass buildings. \u00a0Birds breaking their necks by smashing into those buildings account for over <a href=\"https:\/\/worldanimalfoundation.org\/advocate\/how-many-birds-do-cats-kill\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">600 million bird deaths<\/a> each year, which has helped shrink the U.S. bird population by almost a third since 1970. \u00a0Cities are looking for solutions.<\/p>\n<p>As deadly bird collisions with buildings mount, cities look for solutions<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.route-fifty.com\/infrastructure\/2024\/09\/deadly-bird-collisions-buildings-mount-cities-look-solutions\/399397\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.route-fifty.com\/infrastructure\/2024\/09\/deadly-bird-collisions-buildings-mount-cities-look-solutions\/399397\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Related Reading<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><script src=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/widgets.js\" data-type=\"book\" data-affiliate-id=\"102171\" data-sku=\"9780520397880\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cats are the number one killer of birds, but not far behind in second place, and gaining fast, are glass buildings. \u00a0Birds breaking their necks by smashing into those buildings account for over 600 million bird deaths each year, which has helped shrink the U.S. bird population by almost a third since 1970. \u00a0Cities are&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/cities-struggle-with-glass-buildings-and-bird-deaths-problem\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Cities struggle with glass buildings and bird deaths problem&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-global"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2143"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2578,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2143\/revisions\/2578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}