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The Uncommon Demise of a Wood Thrush in Costa Rica

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Focusing in on a flurry of activity from the other side of the water feature, I could make out a bird desperately flapping its wings as Clay-colored Thrushes and Scarlet-rumped Tanagers raised their voices in alarm. The rails did indeed come to investigate but came up empty-beaked. All we can say is that it saw its chance and took it.

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

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More than concerned, he is dismayed and alarmed and has been since January 1974, when he first witnessed a Mourning Dove fly into a window and fall to the ground dead on the Southern Illinois University campus. FLAP is the Fatal Light Awareness Program, located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and this is how they raise awareness.