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LISTEN: The nonprofit recorded about 60 more collisions than the springtime average. GPB’s Jillian Magtoto reports.
A team of around 100 volunteers from the nonprofit Birds Georgia documented 202 bird/building collisions across metro Atlanta and Coastal Georgia during this year’s spring migration. That’s about 60 collisions above the spring average.
“It’s estimated that we’re only finding 10% to 20% of the actual collision victims, so the number is likely very high for Georgia,” said Birds Georgia Conservation Coordinator Sarah Manning.
The birds’ bodies were collected across Atlanta, Savannah and Brunswick during the peak of spring migration in the last two weeks of March. Nearly half of the bodies were found beneath windows of residential buildings…