Hi Rick and Linda: The photos of the window killed Kentucky Warbler are very sad indeed. Given this, you would probably be interested to know that a number of groups (local LI Audubon chapters, Audubon NY, NYC Audubon, and American Bird Conservancy) are working with NY state legislators to develop and pass meaningful legislation to address the very significant issue of window/building bird mortality. A bill has been introduced; the Assembly bill is A. 6342 (Assemblyman Steve Englebright) and the Senate bill is S. 4204 (Senator Mark Grisanti) They are easily accessible on the Assembly or Senate websites.
Any information you might have "on workers cleaning up the buildings before office workers get there" would be of great interest. I've been told that too and it would be helpful to know more about that. Please send it offline....... Best, John Turner ----- Original Message ----- From: Rick & Linda Kedenburg <[email protected]> Date: Tuesday, May 17, 2011 10:48 am Subject: [nysbirds-l] Kentucky Warbler To: NYS BIRDS <[email protected]> > Cutchogue April 27th. Some of us North Fork birders got to see a > Kentucky in hand. Sadly it had crashed into the Fish Store window > during the night. The Kentucky is truly a beautiful bird. > Yes it was a sad thing to see but not more so than what happens > each > morning at such places as the glass towers of Uniondale LI. This > time of year they have workers at dawn cleaning up the bodies of > dead > birds before the office workers show up. > It's too cringing to say that birders should go there to look for > rarities, however, for scientific reasons maybe the birding > community > should be keeping records of these type of events and actual > species > numbers at selected sites for extrapolation. > Rick "The process of fine adjustment and of endless experimentation > > over long periods of time is called evolution, the result of > changes > too sudden for nature to provide for is called extinction." Roger > Caras > Subject: kentucky wabler > > April 27, 2011; found dead this am , must have hit a window on > north > side of seafood > > > > -- > > NYSbirds-L List Info: > http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME > http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES > http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm > > ARCHIVES: > 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html > 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L > 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html > > Please submit your observations to eBird: > http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ > > -- -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
