Nature PEI Hosting Demonstration of Bird Window Collision Avoidance Tape

Birds colliding with windows stuns and kills an untold number each year, and Nature PEI is providing education and some practical solutions for homeowners.  Songbirds inadvertently fly into glass reflecting the landscape behind them at all times of the year, and also during migration when they are flying at night and disorientated by excessive lighting.  These strikes have been documented by Birds Canada and other organizations working on reducing threats to wild bird populations, and many Islanders have sad stories of birds hitting their windows.

Nature PEI, the Nature History Society of PEI, has a pilot project, with funding from UPSE Has a Heart, demonstrating how homeowners can apply special reflective tape to their windows to prevent collisions.  They will be hosting demonstrations at some households where people can see what the tape looks like and how it is applied.  Collision tape comes in several formats, but a common one applies small squares in a grid pattern on the outside of the window.  It doesn’t prevent people from looking out and seeing the views or birds at their feeders, but birds realize that this is not a continuation of the landscape, and avoid the glass.

The first demonstration is on Saturday, August 22nd, 10:30AM, at 12 Ling Drive in York.