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Starling flocks in September

 

Outside several buildings in Tallinn helpless, dizzy birds or even dead ones have been found on the pavements.

 

The environmental services in Tallinn and Tallinna Linnuklubi ask people who have rooms where birds collide with the windows to please make them visible for birds, by putting up signs (easily removable) on the windowpanes, in colours that differ from that of the room.

 

In many schools this has already been done for years, making the windows visible with funny or ingenious signs, of course put up so that after the end of migration special window-cleaning will not be necessary.

 

Migrating passerines may migrate in daytime as well as at night. In the flocks and groups sometimes half, and in some cases even a majority, are now young birds who have never before in their lives seen neither large city “landscapes” nor reflexions and mirroring in windows. The migration urge carries them onwards, but coming into cities is not safe for them.

 

There are many clever people in offices: set your minds working and invent something clever and interesting to lessen the risks for your feathered friends. It must not necessarily be just a bird of prey image …