BIRD-SAFE DESIGN GUIDELINES
-Written
by and for design professionals --- Easy to understand by all
City of Chicago Bird-Safe Building
Design Guide (.PDF
- 45KB)
Bird-Friendly Development
Guidelines (City of
Toronto Lights Out Program) [46 pages]
(.PDF
- 8.2MB)
Bird-Safe Building Guidelines
(NYC
Audubon Program)
[59 pg.] (.PDF
- 39MB)
GENERAL INFORMATION
Chicago Park District includes
bird-safe design practices in their RFP process, January 2009 (.PDF
format - 907KB)
Cook County, IL, (Chicago) adopts
bird-safe ordinance, August 2008
City of
Toronto announces Bird-Friendly Rating System and
Acknowledgement Program
Photographs of bird collisions - Toronto's Fatal Light
Awareness Program
(Free Yahoo membership required to
access pages)
European Website
with window collisions examples
Frequently Asked Questions -
common questions regarding buildings and bird
collisions.
City of Toronto
Resolution to prevent bird collisions with buildings
(.PDF
format - 27KB)
Toronto City Council Action
- Preventing Migratory Bird Deaths Resulting from Collisions with
Buildings.(.PDF
format - 73KB)
"No More Birds" - What would
happen if there are no more birds in North America? (.PDF
format - 21KB)
ORNILUX
(r)
Bird Protection Glass manufactured by
ISOLAR.
(.PDF
- 1.4MB)
BIRD-SAFE DESIGN TUTORIAL
This five-part presentation was created
for architecture students; it is equally applicable to practioners
and building owners.
Download the Presentation
(.PDF - 7.0 MB)
INFORMATION
ABOUT BIRD-SAFE DESIGNS:
Bird-safe design recommendations
submitted for Chicago skyscraper.
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For birds flying down the Chicago River, this is what they look up
to when it is time to leave the area.
Birds fly toward clouds and over
building tops. While people recognize the difference between
reflections and reality,
birds do not.
And remember
that birds are not rocket ships. They have to flap
their way out of an area - horizontally. Thus, they will fly into
the faux sky and hit the buildings.
This same situation applies in urban areas everywhere there are
birds and buildings.
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