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The Elusive Goal of Bird-Safe Skyscrapers

10,000 Birds

” That’s because an American architecture firm is planning what’s billed as the “world’s first invisible building” in South Korea. In the meantime, research into ways to make buildings safer for birds is ongoing. Or perhaps I should say “illusive.”

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Birding Chongming Island in summer

10,000 Birds

If you are a person who enjoys analyzing the stuff regurgitated by bird chicks, you probably wish to have participated in a study looking at the diet of Yellow Bitterns in South Korea. Where it is not – for example, in Japan – it will have difficulties finding a partner to mate. Chinese Pond Herons also grow on trees.

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