Resources

Wildlife Rehabilitation Society of Edm. Hotline

(780) 914-4118
info@wildlife-edm.ca

 

Top 10 Tips for Reducing Bird Window Strikes

http://www.birdwatchersdigest.com/site/backyard_birds/top_ten/bill_top_10_strikes.aspx

 

Campus Sustainability Coalition

www.sustainabilitycoalition.ca

Scientific References

Avery M.L. 1979. Review of avian mortality due to collisions with manmade structures. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Wildlife Damage Management, Internet Center for Bird Control Seminars Proceedings.

Baker P.J., Molony S.E., Stone E., Cuthill I.C., Harris S. 2008. Cats about town: is predation by free-ranging pet cats Felis catus likely to affect urban bird populations? Ibis 150:86-99.

Corbett J.B. 2006. Communicating nature: how we create and understand environmental messages. Island Press, Washington DC, USA.

Drewitt A.L. and Langston R.H.W. 2008. Collision effects of wind-power generators and other obstacles on birds. Annals of the New York Academy of Science 1134:233-266.

Dunn E.H. 1993. Bird mortality from striking residential windows in winter. Journal of Field Ornithology 64:302-309.

Harden J. 2002. An overview of anthropogenic causes of avian mortality. Journal of Wildlife Rehabilitation 25:4-11.

Klem D. Jr. 1990. Collisions between birds and windows: mortality and prevention. Journal of Field Ornithology 61: 120-128.

Klem D., Keck D.C. Jr., Marty K.L., Ball A.J.M, Niciu E.E., Platt C.T. 2004. Effects of window angling, feeder placement and scavengers on avian mortality at plate glass. Wilson Bulletin 115:69-73.

Klem D. 2006. Glass: a deadly conservation issue for birds. Bird Observer 34: 73-81. http://www.birdscreen.com/PDF/Bird-Observer2006.pdf (accessed September 10, 2009)

Nordhaus T. and Shellenberger M. 2007. Breakthrough from the death of environ-mentalism to the politics of possibility. Houghton Mifflin, New York.

O’connell T.J. 2001. Avian window strike mortality at a suburban office park. The Raven 72: 141-149.

Ogden J.L.E. 1996. Collision course: the hazards of lighted structures and windows to migration birds. Report to WWF Canada and the Fatal Light Awareness Program.