Freedom Tower: Bad For Birds
3 January 2005 - 5:00am
Ornithologists are shocked by the design of New York's Freedom Tower, which will stand directly in the migratory path of birds.
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...The Twin Towers were regarded as particularly lethal because of their height and location close to the Hudson River, which migrating birds follow."
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Freedom Tower gets the bird
Source:
The Daily Telegraph, December 30, 2004
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