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Solid Air: Invisible Killer Saving Billions of Birds From Windows–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

There’s a lot more, of course, and it all makes you wonder if we should have bird feeders or urban green spaces or fountains or windows. A 2014 Smithsonian study concluded that collisions likely kill 365 million to 1 billion birds annually in the U.S., with a median estimate of 599 million.