Bird-Window Collisions and Bird-Safe Solutions

Join us for a presentation by the Southern Adirondack Audubon Society with guest speaker John Loz. 

Birds don’t see glass. They perceive windows as passageways to fly through or as habitat to fly into when windows mirror the sky and trees behind them. Birds typically die after colliding with windows and collisions are a major cause of avian mortality worldwide. 

Collisions with windows are the third greatest cause of death for birds in the United States, after habitat loss and predation by outdoor cats.  Peer-reviewed conservative research estimates that about one million birds collide with windows every day—the annual estimate is 365 to 988 million. 

John Loz is the former President of Southern Adirondack Audubon Society. He has a B.S. in Biology from Siena College, specializing in Environmental Science. John was a National Park Service volunteer at the Saratoga National Historical Park in Stillwater censusing amphibians for many years. He is currently the Discovery Center Operations Coordinator at the Albany Pine Bush Preserve. John is an aspiring Adirondack 46er with 16 peaks under his belt and he has been a co-captain of a runner's aid station for the Lake Placid Ironman for 12 years. This bird window strike topic is near and dear to John as he remembers as a child hearing the loud 'thump' of a bird hitting the large living room window of his childhood home and finding birds every year dazed and injured in his yard.