Geo-referencing bird-window collisions for targeted mitigation
| Autor: | R. Scott Winton, Natalia Ocampo-Peñuela, Nicolette Cagle |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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| Zdroj: | PeerJ, Vol 6, p e4215 (2018) |
| Druh dokumentu: | article |
| ISSN: | 2167-8359 12488585 |
| DOI: | 10.7717/peerj.4215 |
| Popis: | Bird collisions with windows are an important conservation concern. Efficient mitigation efforts should prioritize retrofitting sections of glass exhibiting the highest mortality of birds. Most collision studies, however, record location meta-data at a spatial scale too coarse (i.e., compass direction of facing façade) to be useful for large buildings with complex geometries. Through spatial analysis of three seasons of survey data at a large building at a university campus, we found that GPS data were able to identify collision hotspots while compass directions could not. To demonstrate the broad applicability and utility of this georeferencing approach, we identified collision hotspots at two additional urban areas in North America. The data for this latter exercise were collected via the citizen science database, iNaturalist, which we review for its potential to generate the georeferenced data necessary for directing building retrofits and mitigating a major source of anthropogenic bird mortality. |
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