Flap Blog
March 18, 2012
March 18th 2012
This morning in the Financial District in downtown Toronto, FLAP volunteers rescued a number of live birds and gathered a few dead as well. They were a mix of Song Sparrows, Brown Creepers and Kinglets. The weather forecast for tonight…
March 15, 2012 – 07:09 – downtown Toronto
March 15th 2012
At 7:09 am this morning FLAP took a call about an injured bird in downtown Toronto. It was still alive. FLAP picked up the bird at 7:22 am – sadly, the bird, a female American Woodcock, our second bird of…
FLAP picks up the first fatality of the year
March 12th 2012
March 12, 2012, at 7 am , FLAP recorded our first bird fatality of the spring migration – an American Woodcock. Caught in the maze of glass at York and Adelaide, it did not survive the impact. Please watch out for…
Through Trillium Funding, FLAP Announces New Staffperson
January 25th 2012
Thanks to a generous grant from the Ontario Trillium Foundation (OTF), the Fatal Light Awareness Program (FLAP) has had the great good fortune to hire Paloma Plant as our full-time Program Coordinator. A FLAP founding member and tireless volunteer, Paloma…
LEED Introduces Bird Collision Prevention Pilot Credit
November 25th 2011
The long-sought dream of having LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) introduce the bird building collision issue into it’s rating system has finally arrived. This Fall, the U.S. Green Building Council introduced Pilot Credit 55: Bird Collision Prevention. The…
San Francisco Mandates Bird-Safe Building Standards
November 25th 2011
In July 2011, San Francisco took the bold and beautiful step to become another major city in the world to mandate bird-safe building measures. It’s Standards for Bird-Safe Buildings includes requirements for location-related hazards and building feature-related hazards. It’s feature-related…
BOMA and REALpac Urge Ontario and Alberta to Support Bird Collision Prevention Measures
November 25th 2011
In June 2011, BOMA (Building Owners and Managers Association) Toronto and Calgary with REALpac (Real Property Association of Canada) joined forces and wrote a powerful letter to both the Ontario and Alberta Ministers of the Environment entitled, Bird Collisions with…
