The new campus Facebook is planning is going to be “an iconic, cutting edge facility,” and have trees planted on the roof in the hopes of providing habitat for migrating songbirds. The architect, Craig Webb, of Gehry Partners LLP, seems to get the issues that often surround birds and buildings.

“This is becoming more important in terms of maintaining migratory songbirds in America,” Webb said. “Buildings create hazardous conditions; birds fly into them,” he said.

Not bad, not bad at all…

Written by Corey
Corey is a New Yorker who lived most of his life in upstate New York but has lived in Queens since 2008. He's only been birding since 2005 but has garnered a respectable life list by birding whenever he wasn't working as a union representative or spending time with his family. He lives in Forest Hills with Daisy and Desmond Shearwater. His bird photographs have appeared on the Today Show, in Birding, Living Bird Magazine, Bird Watcher's Digest, and many other fine publications. He is also the author of the American Birding Association Field Guide to the Birds of New York.