“There’s just so many in here,” says Stutchbury, a York University ornithologist, lifting the freezer’s lid in her lab and rummaging through stacked Ziploc bags. “It’s very upsetting.”The small birds met a painful end, slamming into windows at York University. It spent $90,000 to buy and install “bird-friendly” patterns on windows at five of the most deadly sites on campus. In her book, “Bird Detective,” Stutchbury notes that both male and female birds build the nest, incubate the eggs and feed the chicks. She just hopes the bird-friendly window installations at York University fill her freezer with fewer birds and specimens for her students to dissect.

Source: thestar January 02, 2020 09:22 UTC