[All] FLAP Spring 2017 newsletter

[Kevin Thomason]

Hi Lori,

Excellent e-mail and ideas.  FLAP runs a great program and there is so much that we could be doing to make our buildings safer for birds.  This is an initiative we should put on the GREN Agenda - I’m sure that we could get Waterloo Region and local municipalities to adopt best-practices and building guidelines similar to the City of Toronto.

I know even for my new house construction I am looking at using Ornilux Glass that has an infrared pattern birds can see but humans can’t - looking like regular glass to us but helping to prevent birds from flying into the windows.

Thanks for sharing!
Kevin.

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Kevin Thomason

1115 Cedar Grove Road
Waterloo, Ontario Canada  N2J 3Z4

Phone: (519) 888-0519
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> On Jun 1, 2017, at 1:05 PM, Lori Strothard <strothjkl at sympatico.ca> wrote:
> 
> If you don't already receive quarterly e-newsletters from FLAP (protecting birds from collisions with buildings + windows), this recent issue has some really interesting information about birds and bird counts in Southern Ontario, and how a library in Scarborough retrofitted their windows to be bird-friendly...they found out the dot pattern needs to be on the outside of the glass. We need to get some kind of a bylaw(?) going here as they do in Toronto- all new buildings must meet a code for bird-friendly windows I believe, as well as rules for leaving less lights on in office buildings overnight..  http://flap.org/pdfs/Touching%20Down%20Sp17.pdf <http://flap.org/pdfs/Touching%20Down%20Sp17.pdf>  I see an office building from our house that leaves so many lights on at night that its ridiculous. There can't be cleaners in there all night!  
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> Toronto- Bird-Friendly Best Practices - Glass + Lighting:  https://www1.toronto.ca/City%20Of%20Toronto/City%20Planning/Environment/Files/pdf/B/BF%20Best%20Practices%20Glass_FinalAODA_Bookmarked.pdf <https://www1.toronto.ca/City%20Of%20Toronto/City%20Planning/Environment/Files/pdf/B/BF%20Best%20Practices%20Glass_FinalAODA_Bookmarked.pdf>
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