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Glass is dangerous to birds.

People are working to protect them
with bird-friendly building design.
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A pattern on the
glass face of New
York’s Javits Center Birds are confused by
helps prevent bird habitat reflected in
collisions. glass. They think they
can fly through it.

FOR THE BIRDS

Jeremi Swietochowski is in fourth Sheppard says. She leads the glass-
grade. One day, he was playing collisions program at the American
with Legos when he heard a thump. Bird Conservancy. She and others
A bird had hit his window. Jeremi want to make buildings bird-friendly.
went to check on the bird.
“Just as I was By Design
about to open the There are
door, it flew away,” he told three main ways to
TIME for Kids. make a building more bird-
Not all birds are so lucky. friendly. One is to use less
Up to a billion are killed each glass. Another is to wrap
year in the United States after a building in a screen.
flying into glass. Bird-friendly
A third technique is
“When birds see a reflection of design keeps
hummingbirds
to use special glass.
habitat—to them, that’s just more and other This was done on the
feathered
habitat they can fly into,” Christine friends safe. Javits Center. It’s a
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The Orange Cube, in France, is bird-friendly. A screen keeps birds safe. But it doesn’t block the light.
huge glass building in New York City.
In 2009, the city decided to replace
some of the glass. Metal panels
were used. So were opaque and
patterned glass.
Daniel Piselli is an architect. He
worked on the project. He says that
with glass, “the
main thing is to put
something on it that
birds can see, so
they’re not fooled
by reflections.” Work
was completed in
2014. Bird collisions
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collision noun: a crash
opaque adjective: not
allowing light to pass
through; not see-through
went down by 90%.
Jeremi is also doing his part to stop
collisions. He got permission to draw
a grid on his window (see “Take
Action”). It’s “visible for birds,” his
mom says. “But it’s hardly noticeable
for people.” —By Jaime Joyce
TAKE ACTION
You can make your home safer for
birds. “Solutions can be applied
on the outside of windows,” says
Connie Sanchez of the National
Audubon Society. Here are a few
of them.
SCREENS They reduce reflection.
MASKING TAPE Place strips two to
four inches apart.
ARTWORK Use tempera paint. Get
creative!
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PROTECTING BIRDS
Bird-friendly building design is required in only a few places in the United
States. One is San Francisco. That’s a city in California. Another is the state of
Minnesota. A new building law also went into effect in New York City. That was in
January.
Mike Quigley is a U.S. congressman. He represents Illinois. Quigley is trying to
pass a national law. It would require U.S. government buildings to be bird-friendly.
“Eventually, I’d like to think that no one would build a building anywhere without
doing this,” he told TIME for Kids.
“We have to do our part to ensure that our society has the smallest impact on
the plants and animals that live with us,” Quigley says. “One way to do that is
bird-safe buildings.”
Connie Sanchez agrees. She works for the National Audubon Society. “Talk to your
lawmakers about this issue,” she says. “Get them to understand how important it is.”
—By Jaime Joyce
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A swamp is an area of land that’s filled with water. Many animals live
in swamps. Look at the picture. How many animals can you find?

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1. How many turtles do you see?

2. Find the raccoons. How many do you count?
3. How many more raccoons are there than snakes?
4. How many more turtles are there than alligators?
5. How many birds do you see?
6. Draw a picture of a swamp. Fill it with animals!

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WINNING BLOOMS
At Rosie’s Garden Show, four kids took home prizes for growing flowers.
Read the clues to find out who created each display. Use logic to think
things through! Match each kid with a letter next to a display.

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1. Cindy’s flowers are in a blue vase.

2. Ethan did not use yellow flowers for his display.
3. Ethan and Olivia never grow pink flowers.
4. Jaden’s flowers are taller than Olivia’s.

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