Bird-Friendly Design: Spanking New Guidelines
11/18/2011
Building a new home? Retrofitting an office? Unless you're inspired by caves, the place has got windows. And though they're a coveted commodity, windows can be devastating to birds: around one billion die annually from colliding with glass. "The amount of glass in a building is the strongest predictor of how dangerous it is to birds," according to the American Bird Conservancy (ABC).
The ABC can help you learn to curb the carnage. It just released its "Bird-Friendly Building Design" (available as a pdf here) guidelines, an updated version of recommendations published several years ago by York City Audubon. The document provides a comprehensive set of design remedies, accompanied with clear explanations as to why some work better than others. (Overhangs, for example, have been said to help reduce collisions, but they don't eliminate reflections, and only block glass from eyesight by birds flying above them).
The tips don't just apply to new buildings, either. "New construction can incorporate bird-friendly design strategies from the beginning," states the document, but "there are many ways to reduce mortality from existing buildings, with more solutions being developed all the time." In other words, do what can be done now and update later. Surely, birds will be happy with anything they can get.
I never thought about
I never thought about linking bird deaths to amount of windows, but it makes complete sense. Another way to decrease the bird death rate would be to put dark tints on each window. This would not only help the birds, but keep people cool inside from the hot heat outside.
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Be sure to inform California
Be sure to inform California Academy of Sciences. They built with super clear German glass and many birds in the park are killed...
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I'm glad you brought this to
I'm glad you brought this to our attention. I never really equated the two either.
Now I know why those overhangs are on some of the newer building designs.
Well, the good news is that architects will be challenged to come up with designs that not only inspire from an esthetic standpoint, but from the perspective of safety for the bird population. It is really not such a difficult concept.
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Birds do not perceive
Birds do not perceive conventionally formulated glass as a solid barrier, they fly into it, they may mistake reflections as continuous space and be attracted to trees or other objects in, or visible through, a glassed-in space.
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