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In the west it's mostly chicken.
How far west? I'm in Michigan, and almost always lamb unless specifically mentioned otherwise.
Continental EU
The glass at McCormick Place in Chicago is a lethal obstacle for birds
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> It was an IV line that was visible by the camera but not by the eye. If you can't see infraviolet, consider taking a colorblind test.
Since we're all being pedantic: infrared is also infraviolet
TIL I'm capable to perceive light in the ultrared infraviolet spectrum.
Re: The glass at McCormick Place in Chicago is a lethal obstacle for birds
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The glass was very transparent/untinted so I'd guess they did. Inside the atriums between sections don't have any tint from the glass or at least it's not noticeable. When my group first moved in the glass was ridiculously hard to see between the sections. It was made more confusing because the doorways had four panes of glass but only the center two panes were doors. It was easy early on to think the outermost lanes…
I'm guessing temperature control would be rough there most of the year, when it's sunny? Also what were the other issues you had with the building?
In terms of temperature it could get uncomfortable in the hallways and open seating areas if it was really hot outside. The shared office spaces could get stuffy and a bit oppressive if you had a lot of people or equipment in them. A couple Mac Pros running CI jobs could make a room very uncomfortable. Depending on where you were in the building you might get blinding sunlight in the afternoon.
One of the bigger problems with the building was the size, no pun intended. Despite its size space was always at a premium. Instead of nice private offices most people work in shitty bull pen "offices". Even normal offices have giant glass walls so you feel like you're in a menagerie and they're shared to boot. Of course management got single offices. If the stupid design didn't waste so much space trying to get "natural" light (supplemented by shitty low-flow electric lighting) everyone could have had real offices. The site itself is also gigantic meaning everything was a long walk away.
Getting a nice walk in is great but if you parked in the south parking structure it was a ten-ish minute walk to your car. Then another couple minutes to get to the street. It made running an errand in the middle of the day of eating off-site untenable. When it hot, smokey, or raining the walks to the parking structure really sucked.
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People adapt and become less human... There must be a weird sort of anxiety to walk around and be extra cautious that reality can suddenly turn into a glass wall.
I once ran into a glass door in my house a few years back. For months after that, I had anxiety and "flashback" like replays of the event when walking anywhere near that door/area in my house. That one incident affected the functioning of my brain for a really long time, it was quite jarring.
Same happened to my dog in a hotel patio. She wouldn’t trust that the door was open probably due to a past event (older rescue). After a few days she trusted me when I called her through and finally believed the door was open. Then of course she saw a bird went to run through and this time it was fucking shut.
Never voluntarily went through glass doors again. Can’t blame her. Rest in peace Lucy you were a gem of a dog.
(Dog people have that one dog they seem to click with and she was mine. I’ve been the guardian of many dogs. She was a gross old pug filled with cancer and heart worms and love.)
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This also works for humans, who have a tendency to walk through glass sliding doors if no pattern is applied. https://www.purlfrost.com/blog/stop-people-walking-glass-pat...
Ha ha, and when Apple had to add these to the new "mothership" campus in Cupertino they were referred to as "Jony's Tears".
Ha! That’s awesome.
Ive’s hubris at the end knew no bounds.
Re: The glass at McCormick Place in Chicago is a lethal obstacle for birds
#116On a related bird/window note: Where I live there are many birds - we have been encouraging them for years after nearly exterminating them carelessly. Two in particular, an indigenous bird we call the Fantail, or Pīwakawaka, and the common Starling. The starlings occasionally blunder inside the house, and they cannot get out, they will repeatedly smash into the same window, over and over, until they brain themselves…
Guessing NZ?!
Yes birds when they are smart can be very, very smart.
I am pals with a couple of blue jays who eat my sunflowers. They chase off the crows who torment my dog.
The crows will swoop at Kramer the poodley mutt and it drives him crazy. His genetics make him a small game hunter and excellent ratter. He looks like a lap dog and can be one but give him prey around and he’s a monster.
He caught a crow dive bombing him once which just got him desperate to do it again.
The pugs just ignore them thus the crows don’t bother diving at them but they learned from the one failed attempt.
They also had what seemed to be a funeral for their fallen soldier.
I plant fifty or so sunflowers every year to fatten up the blue jays for winter and help protect their nest from the hawks that linger too.
Quite the little deal we have.
There’s a distinct call they’ll make when they want help with a murder of crows or a pair of hawks. The hawk scream is higher pitched that’s a defcon one.
I work from my garden mostly so respond quickly with the high pressure hose that can reach to the top of the tree they nest in to chase off our enemies if my jay homies are outnumbered a lot.
Re: The glass at McCormick Place in Chicago is a lethal obstacle for birds
#117Do they have a maintenance crew that goes out and cleans up all the dead birds? =(
Re: The glass at McCormick Place in Chicago is a lethal obstacle for birds
#118Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm guessing temperature control would be rough there most of the year, when it's sunny? Also what were the other issues you had with the building?
In terms of temperature it could get uncomfortable in the hallways and open seating areas if it was really hot outside. The shared office spaces could get stuffy and a bit oppressive if you had a lot of people or equipment in them. A couple Mac Pros running CI jobs could make a room very uncomfortable. Depending on where you were in the building you might get blinding sunlight in the afternoon. One of the bigger prob…
I sort of suspected to be something along those lines but, wow… that is unfortunate.
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#119I highly encourage anyone who had birds crash on their windows to install white dot stickers. I installed some last spring on my windows and not a single bird crashed on them since. At first they look a bit odd, but after a week they were almost invisible, turns out the brain is really good at hiding things we don't care to see. They are a bit of a pain to install but it is well worth the effort.
I get a lot of birds in my yard and decorated the windows with translucent UV stickers. Now every sunset I get to see a stained glass dragon on my wood floors. Highly recommend.
Do you have a link to the sticker? I'm interested!
Re: The glass at McCormick Place in Chicago is a lethal obstacle for birds
#120If it's culling the infestation of dammed "Rock Dove" aka "city pigeons"... how do I get one in my city?