Talk:Bird–window collisions

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Proposal to change page title to "Bird–glass collisions" or "Bird–window collisions"?
Hi -- I'm not experienced enough at editing (or Wikipedia etiquette) to feel comfortable going ahead and making this change myself, but both the title of this page and its content seem to have significant issues. The title's exclusive emphasis on skyscrapers is misleading: the American Bird Conservancy, drawing on about several decades of studies (e.g., Scott Loss et al, "Bird–building collisions in the United States: Estimates of annual mortality and species vulnerability," The Condor 116 no. 1 [February 2014], 8–23], suggests that fewer than one percent of collisions occur at high-rises like skyscrapers. Close to half the number of window collisions in the US may happen at home windows. And low-rise buildings — four to eleven stories tall — are very significant causes of collisions: the Loss study cited just above estimates that about 56 percent of collisions are caused by low-rises, like office buildings (Loss 2014, 8). The main problem has to do with heavily reflective or transparent glass below treeline -- not, in general, with height itself.

This Wikipedia page is important -- window collisions have gotten quite a bit of attention this past month, but there is a great deal of misunderstanding about the causes of collisions (and mass media reports all too easily fall into this narrative of blaming skyscrapers, when in fact those upper floors of glass are apparently not too bad for birds). Would it be possible to change the title of this page? (I'm happy to work on the body of the article and to provide more sources, but again, am not confident about major switches and don't want to mess things up).