Bird Strikes Into Windows and Preventive Measures to Curtail This Often Fatal Accident
This is a combination of a few published articles and a number of web site resources regarding the injuries and fatalities happening to birds as a result of their crashing into windows and methods to prevent these occurrences.
City lights, a siren's song for birds, are dimmed
Author: Belluck, Pam Author
Source: New York Times 150, no. 51755
(May 16, 2001): A12
Fatal Attractions - Birds and Windows
http://www.thefeatheredfriend.com/articles/BirdStrikes.html
Window Strikes
Ever wonder why birds seem to throw themselves at your window?
http://www.wbu.com/edu/window.htm
COLLISIONS BETWEEN BIRDS AND WINDOWS: MORTALITY AND PREVENTION ...
http://www.birdscreen.com/Klem_AFO_Collisions1990.pdf.
Steering birds clear of windows
Author: Ridgley, Heidi Source: National Wildlife
39, no. 6 (Oct/Nov 2001): p. 12-13
Preventing Window Strikes
http://pages.prodigy.net/kingbrian/strikes.htm
The talk of the town: Birds, dropping
Author: Parker, Ian Source: New Yorker 77, no. 13
(May 28, 2001): p. 54-56
Top 10 Things You Can Do to Prevent Window Strikes
by Bill Thompson, III
http://www.birdwatchersdigest.com/top_10_archive/bill_top_10_strikes.h
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Bird Collisions with Windows
http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/BODY_UW054
Fwd: window/building design criteria to prevent bird strikes
http://menura.cse.unsw.edu.au:64800/2002/06/msg00331.html
HOW TO MAKE WINDOWS SAFE FOR BIRDS
http://www.flap.org/new/prevent.htm
[PDF] WINDOW GLASS:
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.. night. Window strikes are equally lethal for large and small species. Fifty percent of birds that hit windows are killed.
Expert ...
http://www.iit.edu/~cos/BCN/window_files/WindowCollisionFactSheet.pdf
Lured to their deaths
Author: MacKenzie, Debora Source: New Scientist
v 155 n 2098 (Sep 6, 1997): 16
Bird-Window Collisions
Author: Klem, Daniel Jr. Source: Wilson Bulletin
v101n4 (Dec 1989): 606-620
I hope that these resources will help you gain needed information regarding this problem.
Sincerely,
David Dillard
Temple University
(215) 204 - 4584
jwne@astro.temple.edu
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NetGold/
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/ringleaders/davidd.html
http://www.kovacs.com/medref-l/medref-l.html
Posted on SHARE Yahoo group Nov 8, 2003