I Listened to a BBC podcasts; 'more or less' a wile ago where they discussed this statistic, vaguely remember it stemming for some misinterpreted research that seems to constantly capture the...
I Listened to a BBC podcasts; 'more or less' a wile ago where they discussed this statistic, vaguely remember it stemming for some misinterpreted research that seems to constantly capture the media-machine's attention.
Here's the episode. Starts at 19:50, they give this in the episode description: 'do a billion birds die each year by flying into buildings? We explain another zombie statistic which refuses to die.'
Yeah, just using common sense raises questions about the accuracy of that number. If a billion birds are being killed by skyscrapers, you'd think you would come across a lot more dead birds lying...
Yeah, just using common sense raises questions about the accuracy of that number. If a billion birds are being killed by skyscrapers, you'd think you would come across a lot more dead birds lying on the streets.
There are 2,715 buildings over 100m tall in the US, according to this. 1,000,000,000 / 2,715 = ≈368,324 368,324 / 365 = ≈1,009 dead birds per day, per skyscraper Yeah, something doesn't seem to...
1,000,000,000 / 2,715 = ≈368,324
368,324 / 365 = ≈1,009 dead birds per day, per skyscraper
Yeah, something doesn't seem to add up here. That's a lot of corpses for people not to notice, even if every city/building had super efficient cleaning crews.
Even the lower estimate (100,000,000 / 2,715 / 365 = ≈101 dead birds per day, per skyscraper) is still a lot not to notice, IMO, but slightly more realistic I suppose.
I Listened to a BBC podcasts; 'more or less' a wile ago where they discussed this statistic, vaguely remember it stemming for some misinterpreted research that seems to constantly capture the media-machine's attention.
Here's the episode. Starts at 19:50, they give this in the episode description: 'do a billion birds die each year by flying into buildings? We explain another zombie statistic which refuses to die.'
Yeah, just using common sense raises questions about the accuracy of that number. If a billion birds are being killed by skyscrapers, you'd think you would come across a lot more dead birds lying on the streets.
There are 2,715 buildings over 100m tall in the US, according to this.
1,000,000,000 / 2,715 = ≈368,324
368,324 / 365 = ≈1,009 dead birds per day, per skyscraper
Yeah, something doesn't seem to add up here. That's a lot of corpses for people not to notice, even if every city/building had super efficient cleaning crews.
Even the lower estimate (100,000,000 / 2,715 / 365 = ≈101 dead birds per day, per skyscraper) is still a lot not to notice, IMO, but slightly more realistic I suppose.
Also should be higher in big bright cities like NYC and Chicago.
It would look something like this.