Field guides typically feature thriving, healthy-looking birds. But this guide takes another approach, featuring birds commonly killed as a result of flying into windows. The top part of the page on the American Woodcaock looks like this:
The descriptions are supplemented with data on the numbers of each species that are killed each year (regionally) in this way, so the page on the woodcock reads "Estimated collisions for the GTA: 12,400 annually."
The guide is a powerful appropriation of field-guide rhetoric, I think, for the purposes of this important environmental message. And it's worth noting that the guide is sponsored by Flap.org, a group "working to safeguard migratory birds in the urban environment through education, research, rescue and rehabilitation."
Another page from this guide:
The descriptions are supplemented with data on the numbers of each species that are killed each year (regionally) in this way, so the page on the woodcock reads "Estimated collisions for the GTA: 12,400 annually."
The guide is a powerful appropriation of field-guide rhetoric, I think, for the purposes of this important environmental message. And it's worth noting that the guide is sponsored by Flap.org, a group "working to safeguard migratory birds in the urban environment through education, research, rescue and rehabilitation."
Another page from this guide:
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