Downloads

Building Guidelines

Model Bird-Friendly Building Guidelines (American Bird Conservancy )

Download ABC Model Building Guidelines

Bird-friendly Building Design Guidelines (American Bird Conservancy)

Download ABC Bird-friendly Building Design Guidebook

Lighting Guidelines

Five Principles for Responsible Outdoor Lighting (Dark Sky International)

Download Responsible Outdoor Lighting Checklist
Download Responsible Outdoor Lighting Instructional Postcard

Seven Strategies to Minimize Negative Impacts of Outdoor Light at Night (Design Lights Consortium LUNA V1.0 Technical Requirements)

Download Seven Strategies to Minimize Outdoor Light Guide

Bird Collision Reduction Toolkits (USFWS)

Bird-friendly Home Toolkit

Download Bird-friendly Home Toolkit

Bird-friendly Building Toolkit

Bird-friendly building graphic showing a black-and-white warbler flying towards a commercial building
Download Bird-friendly Building Toolkit

Bird-friendly Campus Toolkit

Bird-friendly campus graphic showing a black-and-white warbler flying towards a graduation cap
Download Bird-friendly Campus Toolkit

State of the Birds 2025 Report (Cornell Lab of Ornithology)

Download the State of the Birds 2025 Report

Additional Resources

50 Bird-Friendly Glass Patterns for Sustainable Building Design
Bird-friendly Building with Glass and Light
Preventing Bird Collisions with Glass: A Solutions Handbook
Manual Explaining the ABC Threat Factor Rating System
Annotated Bibliography of Studies on Glass Collisions & Light
The Role of Artificial Light in Bird Mortality from Glass Collisions
Summary and Comparison of Glass Testing Protocols
How to Monitor Buildings for Collisions (ABC)
American Bird Conservancy logo, features the organization title and a blue simple hummingbird graphic

See more partners