New York legislation requires building glass to be "good for birds"

The New York City Hall passed a proposal on the 10th to require new or refurbished building exterior glass "good birds", hoping to reduce the number of birds that hit the building's glass facade every year.

According to the Associated Press reported on the 10th, this proposal will take effect one year after becoming law. At that time, all newly-built or renovated buildings will be at least 90% of the exterior wall material "highly visible to birds", that is, the surface. Coated or decorated glass. According to the "New York City Network", this altitude is required because birds fly below this altitude most of the time.

Many high-rise buildings in modern cities are made of transparent or reflective glass. This design is easy to mislead birds in flight, mistakenly take the blue sky and white clouds reflected by the glass curtain wall during the day seriously, or attracted by the lights from the transparent glass window at night, and fly towards these high-rise buildings, resulting in injuries or death.

New York City Assembly Speaker Cory Johnson said: "Our buildings have become a 'trap' that kills thousands of birds every year." Environmentalists estimate that 90,000 to 230,000 birds die each year as they hit New York buildings.

The Bird Protection Organization of New York's Audubon Society said that a building located in the western part of Manhattan was refurbished in 2015 with patterned "bird-friendly" glass installed on its exterior walls, reducing the impact of bird strikes by 90%.