Threats | Specifics | Bird Friendly Solutions |
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![]() Road Traffica major loss of life |
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![]() Windows, Towersbirds may not see glass or other structures |
Window alerts |
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![]() Power Lineson bird flight / migratory routes |
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Hi Visibility Flight Diverters |
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![]() Wind Turbinesfast rotating blades can be certain death |
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E |
![]() ElectrocutionLethal voltage passes through bird |
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Power Line Collisionsee above |
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![]() Killer Poleshave a particularly lethal configuration |
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T
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![]() Fishing Netsencountered when diving |
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![]() Fishing Twinebrought by some birds to the nest |
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![]() LitterDiscarded rope, net and twine can be inadvertently lethal |
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P
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![]() From Crop Sprayingapplies where toxic chemicals are being used |
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![]() Pest Controlwhen poisoned prey are ingested into the food chain |
Eggs are stolen, adult birds can be taken for possession, breeding behaviour can simply be disturnbed to point that a pair can completely abandon their nest.
Image Daily Mail November 6, 2012
Live pigeon coated with poison, tethered near quarry to kill peregrines.
South Co Dublin Peregrine nest site, 19 June 2014 [...]
A man walks towards his net where a quail is snared on the beach of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza, Palestine.
The Guardian August 26, 2015 [...]
A fan-tailed warbler trapped by glue in Cyprus. According to BirdLife, an estimated 900,000 birds were caught at Dhekelia, a British military base in the south-east of the Island. Photograph: RSPB/PA [...]