Why can't windows ever claim the unwanted birds as well. Many times I've
heard about Warblers, Flickers and other beautiful birds dying by windows.
When I was younger, I lived in Eugene Oregon and a friend of the family
called me over to look at a "very pretty bird" that had hit the window.
Imagine how sick I was when I got there and it was a male Rose-breasted
Grosbeak :(. At that time I was too young to know that I should have
submitted the skin to the OBRC, since Rose-breasted Grosbeak was and I
imagine still is under review in Oregon. Here we try to get rid of
starlings, house sparrows and they are the species that manage to avoid
windows and cats :(.

Scott Downes
sdownes at u.washington.edu
Seattle WA



On Tue, 9 Sep 1997, Wes Jansen wrote:

> Ever notice that our feline "friends" seem to always get the rarer or
> prettier birds? I can't remember one of ours getting a house sparrow or a
> crow. Ours seem to get spotted towhees and varied thrushes the most.
> Sometimes I think a trained great horned owl would be a nice solution (if
> it could be trained to just go after cats, not birds). We have a couple
> of dogs in the back yard that for the most part keep the cats out. They
> occasionally bark at and chase the birds, but soon lose interest, and the
> birds return. Perhaps there's a market out there for trained dogs that
> will chase cats away and leave birds alone?
>
> wjansen
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