Environment Sandy Springs Blog

Window strikes kill millions of birds.  Please help them avoid it.
Annemarie Smith Annemarie Smith

Window strikes kill millions of birds.  Please help them avoid it.

Here in Sandy Springs, we are lucky to live among many trees.  The greenery around us also provides habitat to a wide variety of endemic songbirds.  Unfortunately, the birds around us sometimes see the reflection of their habitat in our windows and try to fly through them to enter that habitat.  This causes the birds to collide with the window and the consequences can be deadly.  It has been estimated that bird window strikes kill millions of birds every year in the United States.

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Tuesday is not just for tacos…
Annemarie Smith Annemarie Smith

Tuesday is not just for tacos…

Giving Tuesday is coming up on December 3rd. Please consider a donation to ESS to further our efforts to improve environmental conditions for humans and wildlife in Sandy Springs.

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