Date: 1/12/25 1:31 am From: Aster Droste <eviedroste...> Subject: Re: Bird Friendly Window Films
Some of you may remember my presentation at the convention in April on the
topic of bird-window collisions in Arkansas. I highly recommend American
Bird Conservancy's resources <https://abcbirds.org/glass-collisions/> on
the topic, especially their database
<https://abcbirds.org/glass-collisions/products-database/> of tested and
ranked solutions (including lots of window decals and film). They have lots
of information for both homes and businesses.
Also, reminder that my Arkansas Bird-Window Collisions
<https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/arkansas-bird-window-collisions> project
on iNaturalist is still an ongoing effort. Please upload photos of any
likely collision victims to the project to help with monitoring of problem
areas!
Aster Droste (he/him)
On Sun, Jan 12, 2025, 12:02 AM Barry Haas <bhaas...> wrote:
> Dear ARBIRDers,
>
> In the most recent issue of “Arkansas Birds”, newsletter of the Arkansas
> Audubon Society, AAS President Lynn Foster mentioned that she was having
> bird friendly window film installed on her residential windows (pages 8-10):
>
> Arkansas Audubon Society Newsletters
> <https://arbirds.org/AAS/Newsletter.aspx> > arbirds.org <https://arbirds.org/AAS/Newsletter.aspx> > [image: favicon.ico] <https://arbirds.org/AAS/Newsletter.aspx> > <https://arbirds.org/AAS/Newsletter.aspx> >
> This afternoon I came across an article in the Chicago Sun-Times paper
> where McCormick Place in Chicago had bird-safe film installed last summer
> and it has greatly reduced the number of window collisions- they are down
> over 95%. Other Chicago buildings are interested in doing the same.
> McCormick Place is an enormous convention center in Chicago with 120,000
> square feet of glass.
>
> Here’s a link to the article for those of you who have access to Apple
> News and are interested in making your residential or commercial windows
> bird friendly: https://apple.news/AjAI6HngFQY-Vpzi4ZltrxQ >
> The article is behind a pay wall unless you have access to Apple News
> (iPhone, iPad, Apple Mac, etc.) or subscribe to the Chicago Sun-Times. The
> article mentions Feather Friendly, a company that makes and installs
> bird-safe window film. The decision to install the film was sadly due to
> the following: “ … one night during the fall migration in 2023 was
> especially deadly: about 1,000 birds flew
> <https://apple.news/AfjyRMCb7ReiGQEg5fjSJ0w> into the lakefront building
> and died”. McCormick took immediate steps like closing drapes overnight
> and turning off unnecessary outside lights. The bird-safe film was a
> longer term solution with the intent to reduce bird strikes.
>
> From the deep woods just west of Little Rock (where we got 10-12” of snow).
> Barry Haas
>
> P.S. Our small pond is frozen and snowed over. We don’t expect to see
> wood ducks at until there is open water again. It has been six days since
> our last sighting which had been regular throughout October-December. A
> rare treat for us was a male green-winged teal that appeared morning and
> evening on December 30, hanging out with three wood ducks. That was a
> first ever sighting of the species in 26 years of living here.
>
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