If we talking about preserving birds I would still address the cat issue before the wind turbine issue.
I for one fully support never allowing cats outside unless they have a wind turbine attached to them.
Huh, is glibc really only maintained by a small number of people? I would not have expected that.
Interesting, but are those commits to the glibc library itself or commits to the Debian package of it? The link makes it look like the latter, but I could be wrong.