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In India, few are tracking birds colliding with glass in buildings

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In India, few are tracking birds colliding with glass in buildings
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Bird deaths from collisions with glass structures are a global problem. But in India, conservationists are just beginning to learn the scale of the issue, reports Mongabay India’s Kartik Chandramouli. While humans are taught the concept of glass and its transparency, birds likely perceive the reflection of vegetation or the sky as reality, researchers say, leading to collisions, often fatal. In Gujarat state, in western India, for example, more than a dozen migratory rosy starlings (Pastor roseu

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