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
United States Green Building Council LEED v 3.0 includes
information
for bird-safe and bird-friendly
designs
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. |
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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