Simple Solutions for Protecting Birds from Windows

You CAN make a difference!   
500 million songbirds hit our homes in North America each year.

​Simple, affordable, view-saving, and nice looking solutions exist!

Studies show most bird collisions are never seen or heard. Most are predated before we ever see them. Affordable, easy, and simple solutions are below. Window strike prevention is one of the easiest, most attainable, and convenient actions we can all take to make a huge conservation impact.

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Solutions Abound!: screens, parachute cords, art & window paints, netting, lovely films, decals, feeder placement

Window Screens:

• Reduces reflection
• Best hung 4" away out from window with longer hooks or plant hangars
• Professional option: www.birdscreen.com 
• Keep original window screens on windows​ 

Note the reflections on all of the window pictures on this page.
This is what we are trying to get eliminate or reduce

Wildlife Netting & Parachute Cord

• ​Retains view best, prevents impact completely
• 100% effective when hung taught
• Garden (or wildlife) netting (1 inch holes or less)  
• Hang tight so bird ‘bounces’ off - at least 4-6” from window 
• Decorative plant hangars or eaves, or outdoor curtain rods
• Place hangars at corners of windows. Cut to fit & hang
• Secure bottom with plant hangars or cup hooks, or be creative.​

Parachute chords or hanging strings, decorations

• Simple, easy, little view loss
• Professional solution: www.birdsavers.com
• Bird Savers has free instructions for making these yourself
• Patio doors - this is one of the best options here
• Attach bottom of chords to keep from swinging in the wind
• Place 4" out from window for best safety

Window Decals/Tapes/Decorations: 

• Interrupts/reduces reflection when placed close together
• Place every 2” top to bottom &/or x 4” side to side 
• Window Alert UV stickers Wild Birds Unlimited
• Bird Tape by American Bird Conservancy comes in 50’ roles or squares www.abcbirdtape.org
• ​Holographic, or shiny string or tapes, decorations or holographic windsocks: Wild Birds Unlimited​

Films - wide assortment of options at below links

• www.collidescape.org
• www.conveniencegroup.com/featherfriendly
• Solyx bird-safety film

Some solar window films increase reflection
& can cause more strikes

Never use films of landscapes, nature, or trees 
it defeats the purpose
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Feeder placement:  

• Put very close (w/in 3 feet) or over 30 feet away. Closer slows speed of bird impact
• Place at angle to house, not in front of windows
• Further away is better
• Nature-scape between feeders and windows 
• Closing drapes might make reflection worse
• Move inside plants away from windows 
• Stop see-through ‘passageways’ where 2 corner windows looks as if bird can get through
• Picture of Human Face on inside of window looking out – stops “angry” birds too
• Don’t wash windows

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Commercial Solutions:
For large-scale solutions, larger windows, or nesting
• www.birdbgone.com; 
www.collidescape.org; www.conveniencegroup.com/featherfriendly; Solyx bird-safety film;  www.birdsavers.com; www.birdscreen.com 
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