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Migrating birds should have a safer journey now that the US Post Office has altered the exterior of one of its Manhattan facilities. Migrating birds have annually fallen prey to the Morgan General Mail Facility in Chelsea. The distribution center between 9th and 10th Aves. has a south face that reflects the trees in Chelsea Park on 28th St. Thinking they've found a nice perch, many birds smack into the side of the building. Volunteers for the Audubon Society counted 338 avian fatalities at the Morgan mail building during last fall's migratory season.

any lights on in any of the buildings), it's not a big worry.

We’ve been spotting robins in the park for a few weeks now, but apparently the true rush of birds flying north for the summer has yet to begin. The New York City Audubon Society, which celebrates International Migratory Bird Day with the 21st Annual Birdathon on May 14th, is preparing for our winged visitors by recruiting for its Project Safe Flight (mentioned here yesterday), which sends volunteers out in the wee hours to rescue birds who have flown smack into windows: often they fall to the curb, stunned but not dead, and are swept up by cleaners before they have a chance to come to!

New York is the city that never sleeps, and the fact that its buildings' lights rarely go off is prompting bird advocates to raise awareness of migrating birds - and how they tend to crash into skyscraper windows - to building owners, building maintenance employees, and everyday citizens. The NYC branch of the Audobon has created Project Safe Flight, which outlines the problems with birds and skyscrapers and even explains how to rescue a bird that has hit a window. We found this quote from the NY Post sad and funny at the same time, "During the day, the birds are fooled by windows that reflect the sky or parks. Some try to land on lush-looking trees or plants just on the other side of a window." One of the biggest problems is that building cleaners tend to sweep all birds into the gutters - dead and alives ones that have just been shocked from their crashes - so Project Safe Flight is working on educating Midtown building staffs and building a volunteer base. Okay, fine, that Windexad isn't looking funny anymore.