Birds and buildings

Modern buildings have glass facades, which is proving fatal to birds. The glass reflects the sky and clouds,
and the bird just flies bang into them, not realising the reflection. This has been a problem worldwide.
A google search on "birds hitting glass buildings" returns lots of information and statistics.

This has become a problem in IIT too. The pictures below show the a lab in the Aerospace dept, and a female koel which died hitting the glass facade, and another unidentified bird which too died. A security guard says that on a average two to four birds hit the building every day.
Photographs by Balaji Chellappan, Dept of Aerospace Engg, IIT Madras.