Finch Bird

There are few sounds as distressing as the sound of a bird crashing into one of your windows.  If it happens on a regular basis, you would like to do something to keep it from happening.  Lets take a look at a couple of possible ways to reduce the likelihood that this will happen.

One popular misconception is that the birds are attracted to what they see inside the home or office.  While this may at times be the case, much more often the attraction is what’s outside, and the birds see it reflected in the window.  That’s why they hit office windows so often, as these are very often heavily tinted, with a highly reflective surface.  So the birds simply see the window as an extension of the rest of their world, just more clouds and birds.

Given that reflections on the window draw many birds into flying into the window as they either consider it an extension of the outside, or they see a strange bird in their area, what are some things we can do to minimize the deceptive reflections of the windows?

You can start with some quick and easy solutions.  If you have put your bird feeder or birdhouse very close to the window so you can enjoy the view of your birds, you may have simply brought on the problem by attracting too much traffic near your window.  Moving the feeder or house away from the window can often solve the problem.

Distracting the birds is another approach.  Try putting up webs of yarn or string.  Decals on the window or something simple like writing with a bar of soap on the window can work.

Probably the most effective is the commerically available reflective decals.  These are quite visible to the birds outside the window, but are mostly transparent and invisible to those inside the building.  They come in variety of shapes, like birds of prey and hummingbirds.



Contributed By: Jay Ruppel

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