The report says up to one billion birds die each year from flying into objects like power lines, windows and tall buildings.
VOA: special.2009.05.12
And this year, despite optimistic forecasts of a great flurry of wings, Scottish gamekeepers think that there has been only a marginal increase in the number of birdsflyingthe gauntlet of the guns.
In Open City, writer Teju Cole describes Colonel Tassin - a (real) 19th Century figure - who kept count of the number of birds killed by flying into the Statue of Liberty, as many as 1, 400 a night.