Can you help the birds avoiding to collide with your windows?
Yes, you can!
The Wildlife Freedom Foundation encourages Cornell Tech and Hudson Related to implement sustainable bird-friendly construction/windows on Roosevelt Island.
New York is part of the Atlantic Flyway, which many migrating birds use to reach warmer climates. It’s a wonderful journey but too many of them will never reach their destinations. They will collide with glass windows and die.
Glass windows are the greatest threat to migratory birds. Every year, near a billion birds are estimated to be killed after slamming into buildings covered in reflective glass in the United States.
Follow these simple rules to save birds!
1. Draw blinds, curtains and/or shades in your apartment and lobbies. Please make the windows visible to birds and you will help saving their lives.
2. Turn Off unnecessary interior lights during this Fall migration season!
3. Keep your plants away from the window!
If possible, hang a few ornaments in your windows; or, use decals and space them no more than every 4 inches horizontally and 2 inches apart vertically; or draw streaks with a highlighter (you will not see it but the birds will) or with a bar soap and after the migration, it can be easily washed out.
Each migration season, twice a year, nearly one third of the bird species found in the United States, diurnal and nocturnal, die by colliding with buildings. Near a billion birds are estimated to be killed after slamming into buildings covered in reflective glass in the United States. Every year fast fliers like finches, hummingbirds, swallows etc. (Diurnal or daytime migrants) and the cuckoos, flycatchers, warblers, orioles, waterfowl (Nocturnal taking off within an hour of sunset and flying through the night) will never reach their destinations!!
It is vital that we do all we can to minimize or better eliminate these dangers whenever possible!
The Javits Convention Center is a terrific example. In fact, it has been transformed from one of the deadliest structures in NYC into one of the most hospitable for birds.
The building used to be the largest bird killer in NYC.
Can you help the birds avoiding to collide with your windows? 