Date: 1/13/25 8:07 am From: Lynn Foster <lfoster5211...> Subject: Re: Bird Friendly Window Films
Thanks, Barry, for starting this thread and for the shout out. And thanks
for your post, Aster. You and many others in this discussion group may be
interested in the Bird Safe Campus Summit, which will be held virtually on
Wednesday Feb. 26, all day. It's intended for university personnel and
students, but if you are interested in bird strikes and their prevention,
there will be useful information. And it's free. "The day will be filled
with various presentations and discussion groups to chat about bird safe
issues."
Also, I'm plugging AAS's Event Calendar. Birding field trips, meetings,
webinars, and other events of interest will be posted if I know about them.
So please email me your events. The calendar is at
https://arbirds.org/AAS/Calendar.aspx.
On Sun, Jan 12, 2025 at 3:30 AM Aster Droste <eviedroste...> wrote:
> 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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