Year-round monitoring reveals prevalence of fatal bird-window collisions at the Virginia Tech Corporate Research Center
Collisions with glass are a serious threat to avian life and are estimated to kill hundreds of millions of birds per year in the United States. We monitored 22 buildings at the Virginia Tech Corporate Research Center (VTCRC) in Blacksburg, Virginia, for collision fatalities from October 2013 through...
Main Authors: | Rebecca M. Schneider, Christine M. Barton, Keith W. Zirkle, Caitlin F. Greene, Kara B. Newman |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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PeerJ Inc.
2018-04-01
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Series: | PeerJ |
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Online Access: | https://peerj.com/articles/4562.pdf |
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