Links to further information on Collisions and Birds

William P. Mueller, WBCI Issues Committee Chair

Resources from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, for International Migratory Bird Day’s  2005 theme (Clear the Way for Birds!)

Clear the Way for Birds! IMBD Explores Bird Collisions http://www.fws.gov/birds/documents/Collisions.pdf

The Danger of Plate Glass – Understanding and Avoiding that Painful Thud http://www.fws.gov/birds/documents/Glass.pdf

The Trouble with Towers – A Guide to Bird Collisions at Communications Towers http://www.fws.gov/birds/documents/tower.pdf

A Fine Line for Birds – A Guide to Bird Collisions at Power Lines http://www.fws.gov/birds/documents/powerlines.pdf

Other resources:

American Bird Conservancy - Window collisions and birds https://www.abcbirds.org/birdconservationalliance/members/window_paper.PDF

Avoiding bird/window collisions – Fatal Light Awareness program http://www.flap.org/new/diurnalfr.htm

“Lights Out!” Programs and Related Links

Terrain.org - A Journal of the Built and Natural Environments - on Chicago’s “Lights Out!” Campaign

http://www.terrain.org/articles/15/kousky.htm

Chicago Bird Collision Monitors http://www.birdmonitors.net/

Chicago Audubon and “Lights Out!” http://www.lightsout.audubon.org/