According to Maine Audubon, collisions with glass windows in the state’s largest city kill an estimated 50,000 birds annually. The state published new voluntary recommendations Tuesday on how to create more bird-friendly designs for buildings that get public funding.
Local architects, builders, and specialists who have researched this topic, such as Nick Lund of Maine Audubon, created the ten recommendations.
He claimed that many bird-safe design techniques and principles, such reducing the amount of reflective glass, are rather obvious. Some aren’t, such concentrating collision-prevention efforts on the lower floors.
“The vast majority of collisions occur down low to the ground, not high up in the sky where birds would be migrating,” Lund stated.
You cannot simply draw the blinds, which is another crucial point.
“Solutions need to appear on the outside surface of the glass,” Lund stated.
Maine is one of just four states that have approved legislation to protect birds from window collisions, thanks to LD 670, a statute passed in 2023 that produced these new restrictions.
