{"id":14953,"date":"2025-06-19T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/?p=14953"},"modified":"2025-06-13T15:20:58","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T15:20:58","slug":"bird-window-collisions-prevention-bird-safe-glass-conservation-tips-june-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/bird-window-collisions-prevention-bird-safe-glass-conservation-tips-june-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows are the No. 1 human threat to birds \u2013 an ecologist shares some simple steps to reduce\u00a0collisions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
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\n Birds are drawn to the mirror effect of windows. That can turn deadly when they think they see trees.\n CCahill\/iStock\/Getty Images Plus<\/a><\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n\n Jason Hoeksema<\/a>, University of Mississippi<\/a><\/em><\/span>\n\n

When wood thrushes arrive in northern Mississippi<\/a> on their spring migration and begin to serenade my neighborhood with their ethereal, harmonized song<\/a>, it\u2019s one of the great joys of the season. It\u2019s also a minor miracle. These small creatures have just flown more than 1,850 miles (3,000 kilometers), all the way from Central America.<\/p>\n\n

Other birds undertake even longer journeys \u2014 the Swainson\u2019s thrush<\/a>, for example, nests as far north as the boreal forests of Alaska and spends the nonbreeding season in northern South America, traveling up to 5,600 miles (9,000 kilometers) each way.<\/p>\n\n

These stunning feats of travel are awe-inspiring, making it that much more tragic when they are cut short by a deadly collision with a glass window.<\/p>\n\n

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