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Dangerous relationships between birds and windows is one that comes in different degrees. Sometimes it's just a quick kiss bird glass meeting. Another is a small series of accidents and a flutter of wings. The worst, however, are the sharp impacts that reverberate throughout an entire house, leaving you and your family members shocked and stun or killing the bird.

Unfortunately, these effects are much more common than you might think. In an article for Audubon magazine, by David Malakoff in North America, window strikes kill between 100 million and 1 billion birds annually. According to a story on NPR, Professor Daniel Klem Mulhenberg College of things that the estimate of Malakoff is too conservative and that the actual number easily exceeds 1 billion birds in the United States alone.

Why window strikes occur?

It is difficult to know for sure why the window strikes occur, but the observation has provided a certain degree of understanding. The first and apparently most common reason is that birds can not see glass. The transparency of glass makes the window look open, and this is often further complicated by a window on the opposite side of the house. This causes what is commonly known as the "tunnel effect", as which means that the bird thought that the two windows lack glass and therefore represent a clear tunnel to blow through.

The main reason for other collisions with birds seem to be reflections. Windows of houses and buildings can easily reflect the environment around them. So while the house or building certainly looks be a house or building, the windows are more like forest areas that are perfectly safe to fly.

Ways to avoid window strikes

A range of possibilities for the prevention of attacks of the window. The most effective method is to remove a window or cover it completely with something opaque and non-reflective, such as wood or cardboard. Of course, this removal of a window is a bit drastic and not practical for the vast majority of owners home. Fortunately, with a little understanding of why the birds strike Windows, homeowners can reduce bird collisions with more friendly methods.

Covering Windows

While boarding the windows is an extreme solution, which proves a point. Putting something between the glass window and the outside world can both alert a bird to a physical object and avoid reflection. The line for the owners of most origin appears that this moves ranging from the field of protection of birds and in the area of obstruction of views. Homeowners have several options such as screens summer storm, a heavier plastic "shade cloth", and even commercial CollidEscape film, all of which help to eliminate transparency and limit the reflection to varying degrees.

Silhouettes and Obstacles

Another tactic is to prevent the bird Coming near the window. Some owners put the locks, like a tree or a bird feeder in front of a window, including windows that are hit with some frequency. If you notice your bird feeder is the cause of strike of the window, then moving the feeder farther away from home would be a wise move. Another popular method, which works to varying degrees, is to intimidate the birds away by means of statues and figures. A statue of an owl, or a cut made to look like a hawk flies can cause a bird wandering on a collision course with a window to change course.

The golden mean

To many homeowners, window strikes are rare events and therefore can be easily remedied by just moving a bird feeder or place a silhouette hawk in a tree. For other, more permanent measures should be taken. However, for most homeowners in areas with heavy traffic influenza, there is a middle ground. Being part of the window clearer with the application of custom labels. Placing stickers on a window makes the less transparent glass and can break the reflections, minimizing two of the most common reasons for the birds strike windows in the first place. Special techniques to create tag, you can even make these stickers, almost invisible to humans, while birds remain clearly visible to birds. These stickers will benefit birds, while doing little to diminish human life arising from such windows.

Stickers used to prevent collisions with birds can come in a variety of shapes and sizes. Owners can make use of seasonal varieties like flowers in spring, snowflakes for winter, and even holiday images. These stickers can even make images of birds of prey, which mimic the effects of shape and adding to the effectiveness of the label.

The real key to prevent collisions with birds is to change the status quo. This can be done by changing the locations of physical objects – such as bird feeders and trees – which forces the birds to alter their flight paths. Or, you can do when bullying through silhouettes from predators. Or a homeowner can change the perception of the birds in the current window. Stickers, whether human, visible or not, make windows more obvious to birds, while the screens and fabrics deny covering qualities (the reflections and transparency) that make windows harmful to the birds in the first place. The question for homeowners is to determine strike window method that prevention works best for you.

10.24.2005 Kids make bird feeders

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