Plus, finding a way to stop 200 birds from being killed flying into the windows at UNBC every year, why don't we have a 21st Ave, and PG RCMP will be among the first to wear body cameras — for a price
I'm super glad the student did the study, if it means the "Green University" will apply the dots to all glass services. However, this technology was already proven and could have been applied a long time ago preventing god knows how many bird deaths. Our migrating song birds (most of our birds) are on a rapid decline and window strikes are a big part of the story (cats and deforestation are the other main causes). The good news anyone can buy these dots and put them on the OUTSIDE of your windows (doesn't work if it's on the inside). Bird Canada reports that "Collisions with windows in residential and commercial buildings kill on average more than 25 million birds in Canada each year–and the majority of collisions occur at houses." I just bought myself a kit after we heard a bird hit our window. I bought mine from: https://featherfriendly.com/collections
If one looks at the city map you wil find small bits of numbered avenues here and there throughout the city. Those who have been here long enough saw some of those avenues closed and buildings go up. As a kid I saw 393 Alward St built on what had been 4th Ave. Some 16 yrs later we moved and there was still a vacant lot on the even side where 4th Ave had been that eventually was built on. People from out of town would phone and ask how to find our house, they had driven up 3rd Ave as instructed but missed a turn and found themselves back downtown at 11th & Victoria as 3rd curved into Laurier which beame 11th Ave.
St Giles church was removed from where 5th Ave turned into Meville St and 5th curved and became 4th Ave going into the downtown. In the VLA we see the streets runing parallel to 20th Ave were all named rather than numbered.
In newer areas it became popular to use crescents off main streets to reduce traffic in residential areas
I'm super glad the student did the study, if it means the "Green University" will apply the dots to all glass services. However, this technology was already proven and could have been applied a long time ago preventing god knows how many bird deaths. Our migrating song birds (most of our birds) are on a rapid decline and window strikes are a big part of the story (cats and deforestation are the other main causes). The good news anyone can buy these dots and put them on the OUTSIDE of your windows (doesn't work if it's on the inside). Bird Canada reports that "Collisions with windows in residential and commercial buildings kill on average more than 25 million birds in Canada each year–and the majority of collisions occur at houses." I just bought myself a kit after we heard a bird hit our window. I bought mine from: https://featherfriendly.com/collections
You can learn more here: https://www.birdscanada.org/you-can-help/make-windows-safer-for-birds
Hey Andrew! Super quick correction: your title today says the fire was in 2019. Thank you for another awesome piece today!
One that really bothers me is Spruce St.
It’s insane that it runs from 15th to Milburn, stops. Then appears again off Ferry.
The portion off Ferry just needs a new name.
For anyone else wanting to learn about the sad state of our birds check out the most recent report from Bird Canada (Oct 2024): https://www.birdscanada.org/introducing-the-state-of-canadas-birds
And Cornell Bird has a lot of really practical information here: https://www.birds.cornell.edu/home/bring-birds-back/
If one looks at the city map you wil find small bits of numbered avenues here and there throughout the city. Those who have been here long enough saw some of those avenues closed and buildings go up. As a kid I saw 393 Alward St built on what had been 4th Ave. Some 16 yrs later we moved and there was still a vacant lot on the even side where 4th Ave had been that eventually was built on. People from out of town would phone and ask how to find our house, they had driven up 3rd Ave as instructed but missed a turn and found themselves back downtown at 11th & Victoria as 3rd curved into Laurier which beame 11th Ave.
St Giles church was removed from where 5th Ave turned into Meville St and 5th curved and became 4th Ave going into the downtown. In the VLA we see the streets runing parallel to 20th Ave were all named rather than numbered.
In newer areas it became popular to use crescents off main streets to reduce traffic in residential areas