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Hey pals! A bit of a different comic this week! I made this working with Bird Safe Guelph to help spread some information about birds and window collisions.

- the issue: between 16 and 42 million birds die from fatal window collisions each year in Canada

- the solution: retrofitting windows is an easy and effective solution to preventing bird deaths

- the details: markings on windows should be on the outside of windows and no more than 5cm apart to be effective

- take action: each person can save birds lives by retrofitting their windows at home

- For folks in Guelph, Ontario @birdsafeguelph will be giving out free materials for transforming windows at home in the month of April, visit www.birdsafeguelph.ca for more info.

And visit Flap Canada and Feather Friendly for more information on the topic!

I hope everyone has a great weekend!

-Joshua

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Ben Anderson

When you need five dollars and are willing to kill

eFox

This is advertisement I don't mind getting!

Ashley N

Such a good callout (and cute comic) - just ordered my window tape.

Luke Thies

Thanks Josh, if you don't mind me sharing some more information for people in the US, if they want to help out they should see if their city has a "Lights Out" campaign. It's a campaign through the National Audubon Society which seeks to raise awareness of this growing cause of bird death! And maybe if your city doesn't have one see about trying to establish one and help out! https://www.audubon.org/httpswwwaudubonorgmenuconservation/existing-lights-out-programs

falseknees

Thank you Luke! That's very helpful! I'm sure Americans will be asking for this information when I post it to my Instagram.

John Julius

This went in a dark direction.

Luke Thies

I volunteered through the lights out program in my city and helped a professor on my universities campus do research about bird window collisions on campus, so its something I'm passionate about haha. Definitely always great to be able to get the word out in large form to people who might not know! It's Awesome you're able to do so!

Karen Davis

I bought tape from ABC Birds, and they said 4 inches. It has worked, as far as I can tell, but I do see birds pulling up, so maybe it would be better closer?

Minzoku Bokumetsu

the problem is how to collect if the other bird doesn't have the five dollars on hand... er, wing

J A

Thanks for shedding light on this topic and product!

Lori Stokes

The expression on his face in the last frame = wonderful

Lori Stokes

And +1 to the window tape!

falseknees

I'm not sure! As far as I understand it's about making it look like a very small bird couldn't fly through any gaps