Lorna Gibson

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199 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 13 Jul

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Something You Should Know · Has Therapy Gone Too Far? & The Hidden Genius of Birds · 13 Jul 2026 podcast

So just cats can be a hazard for birds.

Also things like window glass, when the birds are migrating, sometimes they fly into windows and buildings, especially if the lights are on.

And there's been a concerted effort to try to get like tall skyscrapers to turn the lights off during migration, or to use a kind of glass that has some pattern on it that the

the birds can see.

Another thing is the birds can see ultraviolet light that we can't see.

So there's coatings that reflect ultraviolet light too.

So the birds are really under threat in a lot of ways.

There's been some success stories, for instance.

You know, you may have heard that after World War II, farmers started using DDT as an insecticide and that the birds declined both because they were

eating this poison.

And as you got further up the food chain, the larger birds were getting more and more of this poison in their system and dying.

And also the eggshells were thinning and the eggs weren't hatching.

And DDT was banned in the 1970s, and many of the birds that were affected by that have really come back.

So things like bald eagles and ospreys, for example, peregrine falcons, all of those birds were really in a lot of peril 50 years ago.

And now I see bald eagles in Boston.

I see peregrine falcons in Boston.

And so they've really recovered.

So there's some success stories, but nevertheless, there's a lot of threats to birds.

Thanks very much for having me.

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