Marking World Migratory Bird Day (October 10th), today meet Heidi Trudell, an architectural consultant, from Michigan in the USA. Heidi advises the building industry and homeowners about the changes they can make to reduce the incidence of deaths and serious injuries to birds by colliding with glass and reflective surfaces. It is estimated that up to a billion birds worldwide meet their end this way annually. It is avoidable, and Heidi is working hard to greatly reduce this number.
Heidi qualifies as a Bird Nerd, and answers the usual Bird Emergency questions, to place herself on our spectrum.
Follow Heidi on Twitter or check out her website - www.justsavebirds.com
The collection work that Heidi does is unpaid, and she supports other volunteers, so please consider supporting her via her Patreon - https://https://www.patreon.com/justsavebirds
Twitter - twitter.com/justsavebirds
Just Save Birds - facebook.com/groups/justsavebirds
Dead Birds 4 Science! - facebook.com/groups/deadbirds
Instagram - instagram.com/justsavebirds
International Faceook groups of relevance:
Proyecto Aves y Ventanas - https://www.facebook.com/groups/289187377950892/
S Korea, Reports on Bird-Glass Collisions - https://www.facebook.com/groups/307904289925035/
I don’t have translations for either of these groups:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/308545713368523/?ref=share
https://www.facebook.com/groups/445639272561545/?ref=share
The dead birds that are collected (and fill up Heidi's freezer!) do make a contribution to our knowledge;
Collection - https://abcbirds.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Window_Collision_Bibliography-February-2017.pdf
A study by Heidi -
Hager et al, from Illinois
https://www.muhlenberg.edu/media/contentassets/images/academics/biology/biology/faculty/klem/aco/documents/HageretalBirdWindowMortWJO2008.pdf
Urban Bird Summit 2017 -https://web2.uwindsor.ca/softs/conferences/2017/softs2017-Preliminary-Assessment-of-Bird-Strikes-at-Windows.pdf
