SAN ANTONIO \u2014 There\u2019s a new and growing crowd in the birding world. Young adults and teens are spending more time looking to the sky, a trend that Danny Kelleher with the Bexar Audubon Society has noticed.<\/p>\n
\u201cI always joke that if you\u2019re under the age of 60, you\u2019re a young birder,\u201d Kelleher said. \u201cBut I think that\u2019s changing quickly.\u201d<\/p>\n
He helped students at Trinity University start a campus chapter of the society, of which Cole Robinson is president.<\/p>\n
\u201cI like a hobby where I can learn something new every single day,\u201d Robinson said.<\/p>\n
The more time the group spent spotting birds on campus, the more they noticed how many birds were getting killed or hurt from flying into windows.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have a lot of windows on our campus,\u201d Robinson said. \u201cIt\u2019s just part of our architecture.\u201d<\/p>\n
The group has started tracking window strikes, and Robinson said they\u2019re averaging one incident a day, something he says is above normal.<\/p>\n
They\u2019re also working with their school to put decals or decorations on some windows so the birds can see them.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe wanted to do this because we love birds. That\u2019s our No. 1,\u201d Robinson said. \u201cOur No. 2 is that we love birds so much we want to help them.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO \u2014 There\u2019s a new and growing crowd in the birding world. Young adults and teens are…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":472677,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[132,1570,102,138,30720,223,82,84,83,27,1569,835],"class_list":["post-472676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-austin","tag-ctv","tag-dallas","tag-el-paso","tag-lily-celeste","tag-news","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news","tag-texas","tag-texas-what-you-need-to-know","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=472676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/472677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}