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Natural History of Animals

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January 8, 2018

Engineering Bird-Friendly Glass on PBS (scitech)now

Every year hundreds of millions of birds die from…

ABOUT DR. DANIEL KLEM JR.

Daniel Klem Jr. is a United States ornithologist, known for his pioneering research into the mortality of birds due to glass windows. He is currently a Sarkis Acopian Professor of Ornithology and Conservation Biology at Muhlenberg College.

His research has influenced the design of buildings, not least the Niagara Falls State Park Observation Tower, on which he was a design consultant. He holds several US patents relating to windows design. He has also written about the birds of Armenia.

LATEST NEWS & MEDIA

Engineering Bird-Friendly Glass on PBS (scitech)now January 8, 2018
The Cornell Lab of Ornithology: Why Birds Hit Windows—And How You Can Help Prevent It May 5, 2017
Bird–Window Collisions: A Critical Animal Welfare and Conservation Issue, Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science, 2015 October 6, 2015
Science News: Stop blaming cats: As many as 988 million birds die annually in window collisions February 3, 2014
Evaluating the Effectiveness of Select Visual Signals to Prevent Bird-window Collisions, The Wilson Journal of Ornithology, 2013 January 1, 2013

RESEARCH

Reflective Plate Glass- A Hazard to Migrating Birds. BioScience Vol. 26 No. 6. Richard C. Banks, 1976
Human Related Mortality of Birds in the United States. U.S. Department of the Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service, Special Scientific Report- Wildlife No. 25. Richard C. Banks, 1979
Avian predators hunting birds near windows. Proceedings of the Pennsylvania Academy of Science 55: 90-92. Daniel Klem, Jr., 1981

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Animal Behavior Conservation Ecology Evolution Green Architecture Natural History of Animals Ornithology Special Attention Given to Vertebrates Statistics Wildlife Mortality Resulting from the Actions of Man

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