How to stop birds smashing into windows - BBC Stories

One city is making its buildings bird-friendly. That city is Toronto.
A film by Richard Kenny for BBC World Hacks

[ATOES]

For home owners, do this :I did some research, using para cord & stick on velcro, measure window width & length, cut the cords accordingly to measurements. Hang on the "outside" of the window from the top using the velcro. The slightest breeze will even make them move & looks pretty cool, but the vertical hanging strips spaced 4 inches apart keeps birds from hitting the window, I had to do something because the birds hit my picture window with such force, they were breaking their own necks. This one place sells them if your unable to make your own, just needs window measurements.

[CanadaDouker]

Living in Toronto, I can honest tell you, there are more glass buildings been built after this video been done. some of them are completely glasses covered.

[aeptacon]

One day I walked up to the window on the higher floors of the library where there's an outdoor patio and looked outside and saw a very tiny bird that usually flies super fast but seems to be invincible, dead. It's body was whole but head was near decapitated. And I wondered how it died up so high. If it had been a predator, it wouldn't be there. Now seeing for myself a bird fly into a window, I realized the other bird's detriment. so sad.

[bkw]

2:08 a time traveller in Toronto wearing a mask a couple of years before covid?

[JanBanJoovi-olqv]

One more reason to hate glass and steel structures

[XavierAway]

Nah I like the free boney snacks, keeping my windows extra clean and hoping for the best 🙏

[FreqBand]

Other migration routes in other areas affect those birds too.

[welsh-cymru]

A robin got into my house today and I opened up 2 of the side windows to let it out and it hit the middle one instead it was sad I picked him up and watched him take his last breaths his neck was broken it was horrible its gonna stay with me for the rest of my life

[CharlieJoe]

Would it help the birds if the buildings were illuminated with outside lights like those used for some houses? The glass could be treated with something that makes it less clear or illuminates a preditor image on the glass not visible without the lighting.

[oathswore]

I live in BC a baby robin just hit my glass door any points on how to help?

[lowrypierce]

There was a Kamikaze Robin that kept crashing into my living room window over and over…. He’s got to have a big headache doing that. Bird websites say he is a male Robin attacking his own reflection in the glass. He thinks it's a competing male Robin for Spring nesting territory. It's a major noise distraction when I am on my computer. Walmart to the rescue! I hung two empty plastic Walmart check out bags outside above the window. They blow about in the wind. The stupid Robin can't stand them! So far he is gone! I will remove the bags after nesting season. :) Walmart check out bags are best!

[AnanyaShetty_]

There was a bird that just came everyday and pecked at our window really hard! It died after a few months

[Cartoonman]

This building is only 37 percent glass... and it looks hideous