Photometrics AI Integrates Data from Bird Migration Forecasts to Automatically Dim Streetlights to Protect BirdsSystem uses BirdCast data to enable real-time lighting adjustments during peak migration events and reduce the number of birds colliding with buildings
- ASHRAE officially publishes bird friendly addendum O to ASHRAE 189.1 / International Green Construction Code
ASHRAE Standard 189.1 and the International Green Construction Code (IgCC) officially incorporate bird-friendly design strategies, focusing on reducing avian collisions with glass.
- $12.5 million awarded to partners for Delaware River watershed conservation
The Wildlife Management Institute (WMI) and its partners, including Bird Safe Philly, are recipients of a grant entitled, “Increasing connectivity for migratory birds in the Delaware Watershed by reducing bird collisions.” This three-year grant will provide nearly $500,000 for efforts to educate and mitigate for bird collisions with glass through 2028 in Southeast Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
- Evening Grosbeak Window Collisions!
The Evening Grosbeak needs your help. For decades this brightly colored finch was a beloved winter backyard feeder bird during its irruptions from more northern or montane breeding areas. Recent studies have found that Evening Grosbeak has lost more than…
- BCPA 2025 Virtual Summit To Take Place Oct 29-30
On Oct 29-30, the Bird Collision Prevention Alliance will host two half days of inspiring talks and presentations on a variety of topics around bird collision prevention and advocacy for partners and collaborators.
- To protect birds from windows, change human behavior (Cornell Chronicle)
Bird lovers are more motivated to take action to prevent birds from colliding with their windows by messages that emphasize the effectiveness of those measures, while emotional appeals are more persuasive for the general public, a new Cornell study has found.
The Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center kills hundreds of birds. Could new design help? (The Dallas Morning News)Since 2021, volunteers have documented at least 3,052 bird-building collisions across 128 downtown locations. About 924 collisions, or about 30%, occurred at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center.
- USGS Joins the Bird Collision Prevention Alliance to Combat Bird Collisions (USGS)
USGS has joined forces with public and private partners to create the Bird Collision Prevention Alliance and will serve as a leading agency along with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, National Park Service, American Bird Conservancy, National Audubon Society, Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Dark Sky International, Fatal Light Awareness Program and many others.
- The National Zoo is Saving Birds One Window at a Time (Wild Hope)
In 2024, a newly formed bird collision prevention team began an effort to make all the zoo’s glass bird-safe — and to encourage its patrons to make similar changes in their own homes.
- The Bird-Safe Buildings Movement Continues to Grow (Audubon)
Audubon chapters, centers, and programs are making buildings and night skies safer to protect migrating birds.
- Wild Hope: Building for Birds (HHMI Tangled Bank Studios)
Watch and share the latest episode from Wild Hope, highlighting the important work of the The Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York City and The Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute in Washington, D.C., to stop bird collisions at their buildings.
- LEED’s Green Building Rules Are Becoming More Bird-Friendly—Do They Go Far Enough? (Audubon Magazine)
The world’s top system for certifying environmentally conscious design is putting more emphasis on preventing bird-building collisions, but critics say it’s still too easy for builders to skip measures that could save avian lives.
