An inspired description from a veterinary tech who has just discovered Dead Duck Day:
@h717p4r3 Dead duck day is celebrated to commemorate the billions of birds that collide with windows annually worldwide wide and to try to figure out a way to solve this problem. Kees Moeliker is the ornithologist who documented this case and won the Ig Nobel prize for his paper on paper on the subject. The Ig Nobel prize is given to those who make people laugh and then think. Here’s the link to his TED talk: https://go.ted.com/6wnB
She writes: “Dead duck day is celebrated to commemorate the billions of birds that collide with windows annually worldwide wide and to try to figure out a way to solve this problem. Kees Moeliker is the ornithologist who documented this case and won the Ig Nobel prize for his paper on paper on the subject. The Ig Nobel prize is given to those who make people laugh and then think. Here’s the link to his TED talk:”
If you are in Vilnius, LIthuania on March 19, 2025, you can see Kees Moeliker tell the story of Dead Duck Day. He will be a featured speaker at The Coins 2025.