When birds attack themselves on glass doors & windows...

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We have two picture windows on the front of our house and have to wipe bird marks off them two or three times a summer.....

poor thing-- it had to hurt itself

Most of the time, when animals are born with genetic problems, they sometimes do stupid things. You know when you see birds that have gotten killed by cars, that's a really good example. Too bad shit like that doesn't happen to stupid humans. :shrug:
Duckie

A's in this case being the genetically wrecked and B's being hit by cars. Saying birds that are hit by cars are defective is like saying that a boat isn't seaworthy to begin with because it was torpedoed.

Some are just stunned and walk around for abit before they fly off..

I had two Wood Ducks hit the small window on the back porch on Monday....scared the crap out of me...they were in a mating frenzy and weren't paying attention...when I ran back to see what was going on, they were already mating so the impact didn't hurt them much...

like stickers or something. It doesn't. They still ram it.

I like it when the bugs do it - birds scare me though.

Birds fly into windows for different reasons. One is that they don't "see" the window - they see the air/environment behind them reflected in the window and don't know the window is there. In that case, breaking up that reflection with a sticker of a hawk should deter them but you have to check the window at various times to see if it's working. (i.e. - a different angle of the sun might reduce the visibility of the sticker). Streamers placed on the outside of the window, while perhaps more unsightly, are far more effective.

Same thing with birds attacking "themselves" in the window. I have a pretty stupid Cardinal around my place these past couple of years who just doesn't get it. He's seeing a bright red thing in the reflection so I understand that he sees it as competition but after half an hour you think he'd get the message. Apparently not. Of course it's not like he has the capacity to say "oh, silly me, that's a window". He thinks it's another bird and, while he might not be winning, he's not really losing either so he keeps up the fight.

window and they put a big decal of a bird of prey on it and that seemed to solve the problem.

:think:

If the windows are dirty the windows become more opaque and the birds are less likely to try and fly through them. O8)

He thought the slider was open. Poor bastid nearly knocked himself out.

Of course it was after half a bottle of tequilla but still... :-)

It is mating season and male birds attack their reflections. They get very territorial in the spring.

Can't be sentimental about this sort of thing.

I was at my cabin down in Arkansas last summer, way back in the deep forest, and I swear, this bird the size of a chicken slammed into my window. Thing had black and white wings, a red crest and a large white bill. Stone dead. I had to throw it out. Never seen a bird like that. Stupid bird nearly broke my window.

</sick>

should have a :sarcasm: tag in there somewhere?

What do I win for getting the Ivory Bill reference? ;-)

It would be a pity if my sick joke got popped by the moderators.

something. They think they are flying towards a bush to perch on or more open space to fly in.

It was obviously just learning to fly and came into the window at an incredible rate. There's a flat roof just outside and the poor little thing was laying there. One of its wings was not folded in properly and I wondered whether it would be best to kill it switfly and painlessly.

My office-mate shrieked wildly at the slightest suggestion - it was gone later, I hope that its wing was undamaged and that it flew off properly and won't go near windows again.