Barriers and opportunities to preventing residential bird-window collisions.

ABSTRACT: Collisions with windows are a leading source of avian mortality in North America. Window treatment options are commercially available; however, these solutions are rarely used. To investigate knowledge and perceptions of bird-window collisions, willingness to treat windows, and barriers and solutions to treating windows we conducted a survey of residents in Ottawa, Canada. Of 422 survey respondents, 90.7% had previously heard of bird-window collisions, 58.5% had previously observed a collision, 88.0% consider collisions with windows to be an issue in Ottawa, and 87.0% were willing to treat their windows. For all survey respondents, the top barriers reducing willingness to treat windows included the perception that birds infrequently or never collide with windows, aesthetics, and wanting a

SUBMITTER: Lysyk AJV 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12935251 | biostudies-literature | 2026

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature