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View fullsize City Bird just received a collision report of a stunned Black-throated Blue Warbler at Mclver Residence Hall right across Coker Arboretum on UNC-CH campus about an hour ago. The bird has flew away on its own (we hope he will make it). Millions of bir
View fullsize @perfectionisms presented at the NC State Sustainability Celebration event today highlighting the bird-deterrent films installed at several bus shelters on campus last year. There is a 100% bird collision reduction since the installation! #birdwindow
View fullsize City Bird received a collision report today of an Ovenbird at Lampe Hall on NC State campus. Ovenbirds are just starting to arrive in NC and we are already seeing one as collision victims. Please report bird collision on campus using our Google Form
View fullsize City Bird just received a collision report of a Northern Mockingbird at a bus shelter in front of Scott Hall at NC State campus. Transparent glass is also a threat to birds because birds can’t recognize the glass as barrier when they try to get
View fullsize City Bird recently received a collision report of a Black-and-white Warbler at Genome Sciences Building at UNC-Chapel Hill campus (the collision occurred in early Jan). Although Black-and-white Warbler are not common this time of year, some overwinte
View fullsize In 2017, Wittig et al conducted a case study in the Research Trianble Area of NC to see if certain species traits were more vulnerable to collisions. Read this post to learn more! #environmentaleducation #birdwindowcollisions #rtp #researchtriangle
View fullsize In 2017, Hager et al published a continent-wide study looking at the impact of urbanization on bird-window collisions. Read this post to learn about their findings! #environmentaleducation #birdwindowcollisions #urbanization
View fullsize In 2022, Samuels et al published a study to look at the possibility of underestimation of bird collisions using security cameras. Read this post to learn more! #environmentaleducation #birdwindowcollisions #canada
View fullsize In 2021, Riding et al published a study looking variation in bird-window collisions at different time scales. Read this post to learn more! #environmentaleducation #birdwindowcollisions
View fullsize In 2022, Powers et al published a study quantifying reflections and their impact on bird-widow collisions using drones. Read this infographic to learn more! #environmentaleducation #drones #birdwindowcollisions
View fullsize The Fitzpatrick Center at Duke’s Pratt School of Engineering is a LEED-certified building, but used to be responsible for most of the bird-window collisions on campus. After research was done by Natalia Ocampo-Penuela, bird friendly film was in
View fullsize I’m 2021, Van Doren et al published a study looking at the internal lighting of a building and seeing if there is a correlation to bird-window collisions. Read more about this study in this post! #birdwindowcollisions #environmentaleducation
View fullsize During this Fall migration season, City Bird conducted a survey across Meredith College’s campus. Our results are posted with our finding from this season’s survey. Thank you to all of the volunteers for participating in our survey! #bir
View fullsize During this Fall migration season, City Bird conducted a survey across UNC-Chapel Hill’s campus. Our results are posted with our finding from this season’s survey. Thank you to all of the volunteers for participating in our survey! #bird
View fullsize During this Fall migration season, City Bird conducted a survey across NC State’s campus. Our results are posted with our finding from this season’s survey. Thank you to all of the volunteers for participating in our survey! #birdwindowc
View fullsize Bird-window collision continues to occur in the winter season. City Bird received 3 collision reports today. They are Ruby-crowned Kinglet at Chapman Hall (UNC), Swamp Sparrow at Jordan Hall Addition (NCSU), and Chipping Sparrow in downtown Chapel Hi
View fullsize Nature Canada has created a certification for Bird Friendly Cities. Read more about one of the most recently certified cities, Vaughan, Canada. Check out their website for more info on their certification process and learn about other bird friendly c
View fullsize In 2022, Zmihorski et al published a study using citizen science data from 2020 to identify environmental correlates of bird-window collisions in Poland. Read more about this study in this post! #birdwindowcollisions #environmentaleducation #poland
View fullsize As we are currently in Fall migration season, many cities are taking action in helping prevent bird-window collisions. The city of Raleigh is participates in “Lights Out” to do their part in preventing collisions. #environmentaleducation
View fullsize In 2023, Scott et Al published a study using citizen science data from 2006-2018 to determine weather drivers in bird-window collisions. Learn more about this study and how weather can impact bird collisions! #birdwindowcollisions #environmentaledu