Use lights wisely: especially outdoors or near windows, use lights with motion sensors, or have a shield to direct light downwards. 
Lights out: turn off unnecessary lights to save energy – and birds – when not in use. To best help birds during peak migration seasons: Cold, bluish-white lightbulbs are the most confusing to birds, because they look most like stars. Enjoy movies by candlelight, close your blinds, and try to use motion-activated lights outdoors.īirds normally use light from the stars, moon, and even the setting sun to help them navigate overnight. Help save birds – and energy – by going dark at night. The birds may be drawn into cities where they are more likely to collide with buildings, or they may fly around until they drop from exhaustion. Once the birds are attracted to a light source, they don’t usually want to leave it. Lit windows can attract birds and confuse or divert them from their migratory path, especially on rainy or foggy nights. Use products on your windows to help break up deadly reflections.Īt night, artificial light from homes and other buildings can also be dangerous. Whether it’s a hummingbird, a migratory songbird or even a hawk or an owl, they are all victims of this unfortunate situation. Windows have become one of the bird’s most costly threats, with more dying from striking them than collisions with power lines, communication towers or vehicles. This is a year-round hazard for birds, in all types of weather. 
They might be attracted to plants on the other side of a window, or if windows are on both sides of the building, birds might think they can fly through to other side. When the windows reflect images of trees or the sky, it looks like an inviting place to fly. Reflectionsīirds often end up colliding into windows simply because they can’t see the glass. This leaves them more vulnerable to new challenges, including window strikes. Climate change means their world is changing rapidly, and many migratory birds are adapting their migration patterns.
Every year, billions of birds migrate across North America.
In Canada, as many as 16 to 42 million birds are injured or killed by collisions with windows every year. If we want to help, we should always be thinking of our feathered friends. Collisions with windows are consistently one of the top reasons patients are admitted to Wild ARC. Migratory birds are especially vulnerable. There is no set season, day or time when birds are safe from window collisions. While achieving that crystal-clear window is satisfying for a homeowner, for birds, it’s a death trap – to them, it’s hardly visible at all.
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