Keeping birds from hitting windows

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Permalink Reply by Laura Erickson on December 9, 2010 at 4:42pm

I've put a few pointers, with photos, on my webpage here: http://lauraerickson.com/101/02-House/006-windows.html

Permalink Reply by Emma Mackey on December 9, 2010 at 6:38pm

I used to have that problem but then we put up some bird stickers  of chickadees and now we have only about one bird hit the window every 6 months. Even when a bird hits the window we go out and see if one will die soon an if one is in danger then we try to save them.

Permalink Reply by Laura Erickson on December 9, 2010 at 6:44pm

Fifty percent of birds that hit windows die, often after flying off. They can get hematomas or other serious injuries that end up killing them. Stickers are most effective when they're placed close together--no more than about the span of a man's hand between them.

 

Current estimates are that windows kill about a BILLION birds a year, in the U.S. alone.

Permalink Reply by Daniel A. Parelius on December 13, 2010 at 11:26am

It looks ugly, but I live alone in the woods and feed heavily. I put chicken wire ( hexagonal wire fencing) in front of my picutre windows and rarely have any fatalities. It was my last resort, nothing else worked.