Deadly collisions: How we can diminish fatal bird strikes and save lives
Learn here to make your home and community safer for birds
Most probably, we nearly all have heard the sickening THUMP! of a bird unknowingly flying straight into a glass window. The soft-feathered innocent drops straight to the ground, perhaps leaving a smudge of downy plumage and of bodily fluids on the glass. Very likely, that bird died almost instantly. Possibly, it recovered sufficiently so as to fly or crawl away to die somewhere else. Maybe the neighbor’s outdoor cat finished off the bird.
A mountain worth climbing
Pumped hydro energy storage is a complement to solar we all should advocate for, because gravity never fails us.
It is a demanding but exhilarating hike up Dlouhé stráně mountain to the imposing reservoir of the pumped hydro energy storage (PHES) plant that Czechs polled in 2005 ranked among their country’s greatest wonders.