Student - November 20, 2008
COUNTING THE DEAD AT FORUM
While a whole army of Wageningen researchers are doing their best to help conserve nature, beautiful birds are crashing to their deaths at Forum.
The students think that the birds that fly into the windows of the building are probably migrating. ‘One of the coal tits we found had a ring from the ringing centre in Arnhem. These birds were obviously migrating because around the same time a lot of coal tits were sighted at the counting station at the Blauwe Kamer’, Stefan explains. As concerned birdwatchers, the two students are pondering possible solutions. They suggest that a couple of bird stickers could be placed at the ‘accident black spots’.