<story><title>Birds are being vacuumed up as part of olive harvesting in the Mediterranean</title><url>https://www.birdguides.com/news/millions-of-birds-vacuumed-to-death-annually-in-mediterranean/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>leetcrew</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m curious whether you feel the same way about windows, which kill &lt;i&gt;hundreds&lt;/i&gt; of millions of birds each year. [0]&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&amp;#x2F;national&amp;#x2F;health-science&amp;#x2F;stop-blaming-cats-as-many-as-988-million-birds-die-annually-in-window-collisions&amp;#x2F;2014&amp;#x2F;02&amp;#x2F;03&amp;#x2F;9837fe80-8866-11e3-916e-e01534b1e132_story.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&amp;#x2F;national&amp;#x2F;health-science&amp;#x2F;stop-...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>ak39</author><text>This article and the pics of the dead birds broke my heart. :-(&lt;p&gt;I can’t understand any human not pausing to think twice and to find alternatives when faced with such horrendous death of innocent creatures. Yeah it’s cheap and efficient but it kills millions of birds. Find another way! I don’t want your fancy olives if you don’t care about what you’re doing to the birds.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>xoa</author><text>&amp;gt;&lt;i&gt;I&amp;#x27;m curious whether you feel the same way about windows, which kill hundreds of millions of birds each year.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;I do feel the same way, which is why I take steps to remediate it on all of my windows duh. I put up screens on many windows year round (higher light pass through meshes like UltraVue make this much less of an impact on views vs older ones, and the tech could improve farther), ultraviolet decals&amp;#x2F;solutions (also lower view impact, they look milky clear to humans but strongly reflect UV which most birds can see, though since they&amp;#x27;re chemical they must be refreshed), golden spiderweb decals on some higher windows, etc. On new buildings thought can be put into materials, how the windows face vs light and surrounding environments, and so on as well. There are plenty of remediation steps available even for existing structures though and yes those steps should be taken.&lt;p&gt;You casting this as some zero-sum game is confusing regardless, because even if no steps were possible for windows rather then many, why the heck would you suggest that meant we shouldn&amp;#x27;t encourage what action could be taken?</text></comment>
<story><title>Birds are being vacuumed up as part of olive harvesting in the Mediterranean</title><url>https://www.birdguides.com/news/millions-of-birds-vacuumed-to-death-annually-in-mediterranean/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>leetcrew</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m curious whether you feel the same way about windows, which kill &lt;i&gt;hundreds&lt;/i&gt; of millions of birds each year. [0]&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&amp;#x2F;national&amp;#x2F;health-science&amp;#x2F;stop-blaming-cats-as-many-as-988-million-birds-die-annually-in-window-collisions&amp;#x2F;2014&amp;#x2F;02&amp;#x2F;03&amp;#x2F;9837fe80-8866-11e3-916e-e01534b1e132_story.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&amp;#x2F;national&amp;#x2F;health-science&amp;#x2F;stop-...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>ak39</author><text>This article and the pics of the dead birds broke my heart. :-(&lt;p&gt;I can’t understand any human not pausing to think twice and to find alternatives when faced with such horrendous death of innocent creatures. Yeah it’s cheap and efficient but it kills millions of birds. Find another way! I don’t want your fancy olives if you don’t care about what you’re doing to the birds.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dictum</author><text>I was fascinated when I learned that many universities have discussion groups within their Biology&amp;#x2F;Natural Sciences&amp;#x2F;Ornithology departments dedicated to identifying and cataloging dead birds, and most of their urban finds died from colliding with windows.</text></comment>