Window strikes are a major contributor to bird death and injury leading to death. Many attribute more than a billion bird deaths per year to collisions. Analyze your windows and protect birds who think they are flying to the trees and sky reflected in the window. Remember, even if a bird hits the window, falls, recovers and flies on, it is still injured. It will likely die away from the point of contact.
Please check out the videos, case studies and solutions from this page and others on this topic. Then take measures to prevent bird-window collisions.

Contents:

– Brochures
– Guides & Case Studies
– A Few Vendor Links  
– Support Bird-Window Strike Prevention Research
– Return to our Bird-Friendly Living Resource Page
– Videos

Brochures:

The Bird-window Collision Working. Group (BCWG), The Bird-Window Brochure, https://bridgerlandaudubon.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/pa.audubon.bird_.collision.brochure.with_.bas_.logo_.pdf  

You Can Save Birds from Flying Into Windows, American Bird Conservancy, https://abcbirds.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/ABC-Collisions-Flyer-2016.pdf

You can easily stop birds from hitting your home’s windows! US Fish & Wildlife Service, https://www.fws.gov/sites/default/files/documents/preventing-bird-glass-collisions-at-home.pdf

Preventing Bird Collisions with Glass: A Solutions Handbook, National Park Service/American Bird Conservancy, https://www.nps.gov/orgs/1252/upload/Bird-collisions-handbook.pdf

Guides & Case Studies:

–Wild About Utah
Shughart, Hilary, Ripple Effects: Enhance Backyard Birdwatching When You Feed & Protect Birds, Wild About Utah, October 3, 2022, https://wildaboututah.org/ripple-effects-enhance-backyard-birdwatching-when-you-feed-protect-birds/

Sullivan, Kim, Bird Window Strikes, Wild About Utah, March 8, 2021, https://wildaboututah.org/bird-window-strikes/

Strand, Holly, Bird vs. Window, Wild About Utah, December 9, 2008, https://wildaboututah.org/bird-vs-window/

–Bird Strike Publications
A Bird Safe Yard Is Absolutely Essential, OrnithologyCenter.com,, Acopian Center for Ornithology at Muhlenberg College, https://ornithologycenter.com/bird-safe-yard-absolutely-essential/

Consumer Guide to Bird Window Strike Prevention, Bird Friendly Yards, OrnithologyCenter.com,, Acopian Center for Ornithology at Muhlenberg College, https://ornithologycenter.com/consumerguide/

Making your Windows Safer for Birds, Menunkatuck Audubon Society, https://menunkatuck.org/bird-safe-windows

How to Keep Birds From Hitting Windows, American Bird Conservancy, https://abcbirds.org/glass-collisions/stop-birds-hitting-windows/

Messmer, Terry, Cowell, Samuel, Dietrich, Dietrich, and Sullivan, Kimberly, Ask an Expert: Seven Tips to Keep Birds from Hitting Your Windows, Utah State University Extension, March 28, 2017, https://extension.usu.edu/news_sections/agriculture_and_natural_resources/bird-windows

Cowell, Samuel, Dietrich, Dietrich, Sullivan, Kimberly and Messmer, Terry, Reducing the Risk of Birds Colliding into Windows: A Practical Guide for Homes and Businesses [NR/Wildlife/2017-01pr], Utah State University Extension, March 2017, https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2682&context=extension_curall

Threats to Birds: Collisions-Buildings & Glass, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, US Department of the Interior, https://www.fws.gov/story/threats-birds-collisions-buildings-glass

Methods to Reduce Bird Collisions with Glass When Remodeling and Designing New Facilities, Migratory Bird Program, U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service, US Department of the Interior, https://www.fws.gov/sites/default/files/documents/minimizing-bird-collisions-with-glass-remodeled-and-new-facilities.pdf

Reducing Bird Collisions with Buildings and Building Glass–Best Practices, Migratory Bird Program, U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service, US Department of the Interior, January 2016, updated February 2021, https://www.fws.gov/sites/default/files/documents/reducing-bird-collisions-with-buildings.pdf

Riggs, G.J., Barton, C.M., Riding, C.S. et al. Field-testing effectiveness of window markers in reducing bird-window collisions. Urban Ecosyst (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11252-022-01304-w

Brown BB, Kusakabe E, Antonopoulos A, Siddoway S, Thompson L. 2019. Winter bird-window collisions: mitigation success, risk factors, and implementation challenges. PeerJ 7:e7620 https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7620

Brown, Barbara B., Santos, Sabrina, Hunter, Lia M., Bird‐window Collision Study Manual, Techniques and Practices for Bird‐window Collision Studies, Family & Consumer Studies Department, University of Utah, June 8, 2020, https://fcs.utah.edu/_resources/documents/bird-strikedocs/bird-strike_datacollectionmanual20200608.pdf

Klem, Dr. Daniel Jr, Solid Air: Invisible Killer- Saving Billions of Birds from Windows, Hancock House Publishers, October 5, 2021, https://www.amazon.com/Solid-Air-Invisible-Killer-Billions/dp/0888396465 

A Few Vendor Links:

Acopian BirdSavers, https://www.birdsavers.com/

FeatherFriendly.com, https://www.featherfriendly.com/

[Quiz] Test your knowledge about birds and bird-friendly glass solutions, Guardian Glass, Guardian Industries, https://www.guardianglass.com/us/en/insights/quiz-bird-building-collision

Horton, Jennifer, Prevent birds from hitting windows with these products, Birdwatching Daily, Madavor Media, LLC., February 3, 2022, https://www.birdwatchingdaily.com/gear/preventing-bird-window-collisions/15-products-prevent-birds-hitting-windows/

Please let us know if you find good products for bird/window strike protection.

 

Videos:

1. Cornell Lab of Ornithology: Treat Glass by Day, Dim Lights at Night. Help Prevent Bird Collisions! (1.4 mn)

Treat Glass by Day, Dim Lights at Night. Help Prevent Bird Collisions
Courtesy Cornell Lab of Ornithology

2.Birds Connect Seattle, Save Birds from Window Collisions (1.16 mn)***

Save Birds from Window Collisions
Courtesy Birds Connect Seattle

3. National Audubon Society, Plants for Birds (1.05 mn)

Plants for Birds
Courtesy National Audubon Society

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