How Better Glass Can Save Millions of Birds

[Still Waters]

We may be embarrassed to admit it, but we've all done it: run headlong into a window or sliding glass door that we just didn't see.

People usually escape with only a bruised ego. But when birds smack into windows, the results can be deadly.

In fact, as many as 600 million birds die in window collisions in the U.S. and Canada every year, scientists estimate. We may hear only the occasional thump as a sparrow or robin crashes into our home or office window, but they add up.

http://news.national...nimals-science/

[pallidin]

Yeah, I've seen it many times myself at the golf club bar windows where I used to work.

Usually a broken neck or broken wing(both of which can be fatal in the short term/long term)

Edited November 16, 2014 by pallidin

[Sundew]

Had a hawk try to fly into my living room today, fortunately my deflector shield was working (the sliding glass door was closed) and it repelled the war-bird. The hawk wasn't hurt, probably just surprised, I imagine they are designed to take more on an impact then a song bird. I do find at least three or so small birds every year that have made the same mistake, most break their necks, even a Downy Woodpecker, whose neck should take quite a bit of abuse was killed this year. Decals are supposed to help repel birds but they sure are ugly.

[pallidin]

Why would a bird attempt to fly through a glass window of an obvious surrounding building structure?

Bird brain, I guess.