Here is a brief list of resources created by people at COD:
Ouellette, David. “Birds and the Built Environment: Towards Reconciliation,” n.d. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/610a97870a7b92681378bfb2/t/61117f98c5516d06bb27d394/1628536731254/VAS%2BHargrave%2B-%2BEducational%2BResource%2BGuide%2B%2B%2BEssay.pdf.
Visiting Artist Series: Alice Hargrave with Gavin Van Horn and Stephanie Touzalin. Accessed February 17, 2023. https://www.theccma.org/video-library/v/alice-vas-hargrave-with-gavin-van-horn-and-stephanie-touzalin.
The U.S. Committee of the North American Bird Conservation Initiative (NACBI). (2025). State of the Birds 2025. Retrieved April 11, 2025, from https://www.stateofthebirds.org/2025
This 2025 edition of the State of the Birds report is a status assessment of the health of the nation’s bird populations, delivered to the American people by scientists from U.S. bird conservation groups.
Rosenberg, Kenneth P., Adriaan Dokter, Peter Blancher, John Sauer, Adam Smith, Paul Smith, Jessica Stanton, et al. “Decline of the North American Avifauna.” Science 366, no. 6461 (September 19, 2019): 120–24.DOI: 10.1126/science.aaw1313
Here is a list of citations with information on the bird population, bird/window collisions, and what to do. If you are off-campus, be sure to sign in before trying to access any of these articles.
Barton, Christine M., Corey S. Riding, and Scott R. Loss. “Magnitude and Correlates of Bird Collisions at Glass Bus Shelters in an Urban Landscape.” PLOS ONE 12, no. 6 (June 1, 2017): e0178667. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0178667.
Einhorn, Catrin. “Those Window Stickers to Prevent Bird Strikes? There’s a Catch.” The New York Times, February 2, 2023, sec. Climate. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/02/climate/bird-window-strikes-stickers.html.
Hager, Stephen B., Bradley J. Cosentino, Miguel A. Aguilar-Gómez, Michelle L. Anderson, Marja Bakermans, Than J. Boves, David Brandes, et al. “Continent-Wide Analysis of How Urbanization Affects Bird-Window Collision Mortality in North America.” Biological Conservation 212 (August 1, 2017): 209–15. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2017.06.014.
Kornreich, A., Partridge, D., Youngblood, M., & Parkins, K. (2024). Rehabilitation outcomes of bird-building collision victims in the Northeastern United States. PLOS ONE, 19(8), e0306362. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0306362
Loss, Scott R., Tom Will, Sara S. Loss, and Peter P. Marra. “Bird–Building Collisions in the United States: Estimates of Annual Mortality and Species Vulnerability.” The Condor 116, no. 1 (January 2014): 8–23. https://doi.org/10.1650/CONDOR-13-090.1.
Martin, Graham R. “Understanding Bird Collisions with Man-Made Objects: A Sensory Ecology Approach.” Ibis 153, no. 2 (2011): 239–54. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1474-919X.2011.01117.x.
Swaddle, John P., Blythe Brewster, Maddie Schuyler, and Anjie Su. “Window Films Increase Avoidance of Collisions by Birds but Only When Applied to External Compared with Internal Surfaces of Windows.” PeerJ 11 (February 2, 2023): e14676. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14676.
Żmihorski, Michał, Dorota Kotowska, and Ewa Zyśk-Gorczyńska. “Using Citizen Science to Identify Environmental Correlates of Bird-Window Collisions in Poland.” Science of The Total Environment 811 (March 10, 2022): 152358. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.152358.