Window & Bird Injuries

Windows in homes and offices kill as many as one billion birds each year according to researches done by Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Most common problem that causes many bird injuries and deaths every year is the window.

What causes a bird to fly into a window?

Birds see the reflection of your yard and the sky in the window. Because they think that they are flying towards a real object like a tree, the bushes, several flowers, or even the open sky. They fly head-on into the window causing head and neck injuries including death.

Some birds are territorial and often fight other birds when they come close to their eggs. Some of these birds do not know the difference between a real bird and their own reflection in a window.

What can I do to prevent birds from hitting my window?

Birds have a keen vision that is up to 12 times better than that of humans. By placing hawk decals and WindowAlert decals two to four inches apart from each other all over your window is a great deterrent that keeps them safe and away from your window.

Using hawk decals is recommended because they are a predator of songbirds.

Using WindowAlert decals (which contains a component that reflects ultraviolet sunlight) glows like a stoplight to them.

Window Magnets are predator birds that appear to be flying thru your window. These magnets will keep songbirds from flying towards your window thus preventing any accidental death or injuries.

Placing things like bird feeders, bird bath, bird houses, pots, plants and trees within 3 feet of the window will not cause injury or a bird’s death. Three feet is not harmful to birds because they fly at a reduced speed when they are hopping from one feeder to another.

I’m thinking of building a house soon and I want it to be bird friendly. What can I do to my home’s design to keep them from flying into my windows?

Avoid placing your windows facing each other. They give the impression of a clear fly-through view. For those of you that already have a house built and you do have windows facing each other you can prevent the birds from flying through by only having one curtain or blind opened while the other is closed or shut.

Are placing bird feeders on my window harmful to birds?

Window feeders are attached to the window and are not harmful to birds. Birds fly slowly towards the feeder to eat their meal and if the bird flies into the window they seldom hit it with enough force to be injured.