When considered on a population level, a similar number of these birds would have died anyway, by some other means.
Chances any of us will survive long-term as we hurl through space on this hot rock of ours are minimized by our collective cluelessness, an observation never so true as in recent days with the fuss made over the U.S. Bank Stadium bird-killer study.
The research’s intent was to determine whether and if so how many birds are killed when crashing into the stadium. The assumption by “conservationists” (the media’s description) who demanded the study was that the stadium’s glassy façade poses a particular risk to winged critters.