More than 300 birds that had crashed into windows across the Greater Toronto Area were found last Wednesday by a volunteer-based organization that finds and keeps records on bird safety.
Most did not survive.
It’s an easy problem to fix, according to Michael Mesure, executive director of Fatal Light Awareness Program (FLAP). But a lack of incentive means few make the changes required, he told CBC Toronto.
During a bird-patrol outing in Markham on Wednesday, Mesure found 20 birds around just one building in Markham. He gingerly placed the only survivor of the bunch in a paper bag with plans to take it to a rehabilitation centre.
“There's not much we really can do other than keep it calm and as stress-free as we can in the hopes that it can recuperate from that,” Mesure said while on patrol.
“It's tragic that the death rate is so high.”
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