Dos túneles de prueba de vidrio
Probamos las reacciones de las aves al vidrio con patrones utilizando dos túneles de prueba de vidrio, los únicos en los EE. UU. ABC comenzó a probar el vidrio en 2010 en el Museo Carnegie de Historia Natural. Centro de Investigación Avícola Powdermill (PARC), a permanent bird-banding station in Rector, Pennsylvania, that bands more than 11,000 birds of more than 110 species in a typical year. In 2022, we expanded our glass testing capacity, joining forces with Washington College to establish a second glass testing tunnel at the college’s Observatorio de aves de la sucursal de Foreman en Chestertown, Maryland.
On the outside, the testing tunnels — 24-foot-long, narrow constructions of plywood — look unusual, but the tunnels are scientific tools. By watching how birds fly through them, we can identify which glass materials birds can see and which ones they can’t.






