Glass is a favored building material for modern architecture, yet it is also very dangerous for wild birds. Because they often cannot distinguish between glass and open air, millions of birds are harmed every year when they try to fly through glass windows. There are, however, several solutions that responsible businesses can use to prevent injuries to birds.
One-Way Glass
One solution is to replace the regular, clear glass with one-way glass that is transparent in only one direction. The occupants of the building can see out, but birds and others cannot see in. If birds cannot see through a window, they will understand that the glass forms a solid barrier and will not try to fly through it.
Colorful Designs
A second solution is to paint colorful lines or other designs on regular window glass. For example, a window could have a design of thin stripes painted over the glass. People would still be able to see through the openings in the design where there is no paint, while birds would see the stripes and thus avoid trying to fly through the glass. Architects can be encouraged to include colorful painted patterns on glass as part of the general design of buildings.
Magnetic Field
The third solution is to create an artificial magnetic field to guide birds away from buildings. Humans use an instrument called a magnetic compass to determine directions—either north, south, east, or west. Bird research has shown that birds have a natural ability to sense Earth's magnetic fields; this ability works just like a compass, and it helps birds navigate in the right direction when they fly. A building in a bird flight path can be equipped with powerful electromagnets that emit magnetic signals that steer birds in a direction away from the building.
While glass may be popular in building modern architectures, it can harm wild birds since they cannot distinguish it from open air. In the reading material, there are three ways proposed to protect birds from flying into the glass windows. However, in the lecture, these three points are doubted because there are not flawless.
Firstly, the author claims that replacing the regular windows with the one-way glass can solve the problem. As the glass can only be seen through from the inside, it will protect the birds which are outside. However, there is flaw with it. The lecturer refutes it because this type of window will reflect the sky and the trees which the bird will perceive so and fly into them. Thus, one way glass cannot protect the birds from getting hurt.
Second, the lecturer points out that painting window glass with colorful lines is not effective either. Since the openings that allows people to see through it may present to birds as open holes, the birds will attempt to fly through and injure themselves. Only when the openings are small enough that birds will not try to fly though, yet this will make people inside disable to see through. So, this method is not feasible.
Lastly, according to the author, creating an artificial magnetic field for the household will help guide the birds away due to their ability to navigate. In the contrary, this is refused by the lecturer since birds only use this navigation skills while they travel long distance. For example, birds will compass when they migrate to a warmer place for winter stay. Yet, they won't do so when they are just flying from city to city. Thus, even when the structure is equipped with the magnetic compass, it can't steer away the birds since they will not be using their inborn ability to sense magnetic field.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 7, column 504, Rule ID: CANT[1]
Message: Did you mean 'can't' or 'cannot'?
Suggestion: can't; cannot
... equipped with the magnetic compass, it cant steer away the birds since they will no...
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Line 7, column 504, Rule ID: IT_VBZ[1]
Message: Did you mean 'cants'?
Suggestion: cants
... equipped with the magnetic compass, it cant steer away the birds since they will no...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, firstly, however, if, lastly, may, second, so, thus, while, for example
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 10.4613686534 134% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 16.0 5.04856512141 317% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 4.0 7.30242825607 55% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 10.0 12.0772626932 83% => OK
Pronoun: 27.0 22.412803532 120% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 41.0 30.3222958057 135% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 5.01324503311 40% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1500.0 1373.03311258 109% => OK
No of words: 312.0 270.72406181 115% => OK
Chars per words: 4.80769230769 5.08290768461 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.20279927342 4.04702891845 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.12839819946 2.5805825403 82% => OK
Unique words: 163.0 145.348785872 112% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.522435897436 0.540411800872 97% => OK
syllable_count: 440.1 419.366225166 105% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.55342163355 90% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 3.25607064018 215% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 4.0 8.23620309051 49% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 1.25165562914 240% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 2.5761589404 194% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 13.0662251656 130% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 21.2450331126 85% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 39.8406861991 49.2860985944 81% => OK
Chars per sentence: 88.2352941176 110.228320801 80% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.3529411765 21.698381199 85% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.58823529412 7.06452816374 65% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 4.45695364238 135% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.27373068433 140% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.368668674598 0.272083759551 135% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.118979170646 0.0996497079465 119% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0822531297744 0.0662205650399 124% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.232020377638 0.162205337803 143% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0472710595047 0.0443174109184 107% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.4 13.3589403974 78% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 70.13 53.8541721854 130% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 7.9 11.0289183223 72% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.62 12.2367328918 87% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.72 8.42419426049 92% => OK
difficult_words: 63.0 63.6247240618 99% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.0 10.7273730684 56% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.498013245 88% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.2008830022 71% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 78.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.5 Out of 30
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