Birds are in decline. Data from Cornell University suggests we've lost 3 billion birds since 1970, impacting virtually every avian species in Canada and the U.S. There are several factors that led to ...
Ever heard the thump of a bird flying into a window? The sound is unpleasant and distressing, especially when you consider that hundreds of millions of birds die annually from window collisions. There ...
Thud. It’s that stomach-turning sound of a bird flying into a window at full tilt. Birds can’t distinguish glass from open air, and that lack of judgment can injure or kill them. No one knows how many ...
As the first hints of spring signal the migration of all sorts of birds back to their warm-weather homes, advocacy groups are looking to solve a perennial problem for our avian friends: windows. As ...
A Shelburne couple with a long history of protecting birds in New York is running events with local architects about ...
WASHINGTON — Here at WUSA9 the environment matters to us, and we know that it matters to you too. According to the Smithsonian, up to a billion birds die annually in the U.S. from window collisions.
No doubt about it, there's a building boom in Northwest Arkansas. More homes and buildings mean more panes of glass are going up. Bird-window collissions are also on the rise. Northwest Arkansas ...
In the United States alone, hundreds of millions of birds die every year from inadvertently flying into windows. At the University of Delaware’s Cannon Laboratory, located on the Hugh R. Sharp Campus ...
HAMLIN, Iowa - While many people awaken every morning to the sounds of birds chirping, Christine Jensen wakes up to a very different bird sound. Every morning the same cardinal tries to fly into her ...
Ultraviolet patterns can make window glass visible to birds, thus preventing fatal collisions. However, it has now been shown that such windows are not likely to work for all species, but only for ...