Rehabilitation outcomes of bird-building collision victims in the Northeastern United States.

ABSTRACT: Building collisions are a leading threat to wild birds; however, only those that are found dead or fatally wounded are included in current mortality estimates, with injured or stunned birds largely assumed to survive long-term. Avian building collision victims are often brought to wildlife rehabilitators for care, with the hopes they can be released and resume their natural lives. We examined the wildlife rehabilitation records of over 3,100 building collisions with 152 different avian species collected across multiple seasons to identify patterns of survival and release among patients. The number of admissions varied by season; fall migration had the highest number of cases and winter had the least number of cases, and summer having the lowest release proportion and winter having the high

SUBMITTER: Kornreich A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11305546 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature