{"id":3175,"date":"2024-09-12T20:18:55","date_gmt":"2024-09-12T20:18:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/?p=3175"},"modified":"2024-09-13T00:54:23","modified_gmt":"2024-09-13T00:54:23","slug":"building-code-trend-birds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/building-code-trend-birds\/","title":{"rendered":"Building Code Trend: birds"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bird-building collisions cause the death of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/bioone.org\/journals\/the-condor\/volume-116\/issue-1\/CONDOR-13-090.1\/Birdbuilding-collisions-in-the-United-States--Estimates-of-annual\/10.1650\/CONDOR-13-090.1.full\">more than 1 billion birds a year.<\/a>\u00a0 Regulatory possibilities to clear sidewalks of bird carcasses\u00a0include\u00a0building codes with bird friendly provisions; state laws like Illinois which in 2021 passed a law requiring all \u00a0new state-owned buildings to incorporate netting, screens, shutters and other bird-friendly features; \u00a0leaving it to the Feds to create\u00a0a permitting process under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act within the Department of\u00a0U.S. Fish and Wildlife; let the locals handle it like in\u00a02013 \u00a0when Oakland became the 3rd city to adopt a bird ordinance which requires the application of bird-friendly glazing to at least 90% of windows and glass between the ground and 60 feet above ground, turn out nighttime architectural lights, install motion sensors or timers so that they can be programmed to turn off between 11 p.m. and sunrise, and minimize roof antennas and other rooftop structures that create additional collision risks; or\u00a0private sector action e.g. the owners of Chicago\u2019s McCormick Place are installing\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/video\/new-window-film-installed-at-mccormick-place-to-reduce-bird-collisions-uzmext\/\" target=\"_blank\">decals with little polka dots<\/a>\u00a0on the windows to reduce collisions.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.route-fifty.com\/infrastructure\/2024\/09\/deadly-bird-collisions-buildings-mount-cities-look-solutions\/399397\/?oref=rf-today-nl&amp;utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Route%20Fifty%20Today:%20September%2010%2C%202024&amp;utm_term=newsletter_rf_today\">Route Fifty | As deadly bird collisions with buildings mount, cities look for solutions<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bird-building collisions cause the death of\u00a0more than 1 billion birds a year.\u00a0 Regulatory possibilities to clear sidewalks of bird carcasses\u00a0include\u00a0building codes with bird friendly provisions; state laws like Illinois which in 2021 passed a law requiring all \u00a0new state-owned buildings to incorporate netting, screens, shutters and other bird-friendly features; \u00a0leaving it to the Feds to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3175"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3183,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3175\/revisions\/3183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}