US House of Representatives passes bill for bird-friendly public buildings

The US House of Representatives has passed a bill to reduce the amount of glass used for federal buildings in a bid to protect birds from death by collision.
The bill, named Bird-Safe Buildings Act, passed on 1 July as part of the wider Moving Forward Act or H R 2 and it will now be introduced in the Senate. If passed by a two-thirds majority it will become law.
Birds, often migratory ones, fly into the reflective facades of buildings and almost one billion are killed annually from collisions in