1 billion birds are killed by flying into windows each year -- and 'bird-safe' glass is finally catch

[douglas9]

Companies are developing bird-safe glass that is coated with a patterned, UV-reflective glaze, and cities around the US are taking action.

One New York City convention center was renovated with bird-safe glass, and it reduced collisions by 90%.

One of the windows is made from normal glass, the other from a special "bird-safe" glass. Though the two windows look identical to the human eye, birds see them differently — and this bird-friendly glass could soon become a standard feature of cities everywhere.

Bird-safe glass, which is coated with a patterned, UV-reflective glaze is designed to save some of the 1 billion birds that are killed every year in the US alone by flying into glass they can't see.

Like humans, birds can't see normal glass that's transparent or reflective. The difference is that birds don't understand the entire concept.

"Birds don't actually perceive glass. They don't understand it," Kathryn Heintz, executive director of the New York City Audubon, told Business Insider Today. "They don't learn the way we do as young children the cues that a frame on a window or on a door probably means a solid. And maybe we've walked into a door once or twice and learned that lesson."

To birds, she added, "the reflection of a tree looks like a tree, and they're flying straight into it."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/1-billion-birds-are-killed-by-flying-into-windows-each-year-e2-80-94-and-bird-safe-glass-is-finally-catching-on/ar-BB16Sv6r

[samnsara]

1. i have silhouettes of birds taped to my window as i live in the forest and..

..the poor birds just see the trees as they head into the glass...but even with the cut outs on the window they still smack into it. I rush out to try to save the injured bird but they are usually just stunned and hop around then fly off. I try so hard

[Mosby]

2. This is so great

I wonder if I can get residential glass like this?