Contents:

– Brochure
– Guides & Case Studies
– A Few Vendor Links  
– Return to our Bird-Friendly Living Resource Page

The Bird-Window Brochure, The Bird-window Collision Working. Group (BCWG),  

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.