Too many of us are familiar with that sickening “thunk” as a bird hits a window. Window strike kills many birds each year, but this is one harm to our native birds which can be avoided.
In North America, up to one billion birds fatally collide with windows annually. According to the American Bird Conservancy, each US home kills about two birds per year. In New Zealand, little is known ...more ↓
Too many of us are familiar with that sickening “thunk” as a bird hits a window. Window strike kills many birds each year, but this is one harm to our native birds which can be avoided.
In North America, up to one billion birds fatally collide with windows annually. According to the American Bird Conservancy, each US home kills about two birds per year. In New Zealand, little is known about how many birds come to harm from window strike, but we know it is a big problem for many native birds, particularly birds such as riroriro, tauhou, kererū and ruru.
The purpose of this new Urban Wildlife Trust project is to better understand the extent of this issue in New Zealand and to ascertain the effectiveness of bird strike mitigation approaches for New Zealand conditions.
Through one of our Urban Wildlife Projects 'Kererū Discovery' we receive many stories about kererū hitting windows, and requests for help when people come across kererū injured from flying into glass. These are incredibly distressing stories for all, and even more so as they are potentially avoidable.
We really want to do something about improving our understanding of window strike, and to help prevent unnecessary harm to our native birds. And so, in 2019 Urban Wildlife Trust partnered with Global Bird Rescue.
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Project Window Strike
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created this project on January 16, 2020
